Znepole Ice Piedmont () is the glacier extending in northwest-southeast direction and wide on

Trinity Peninsula Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the sou ...

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...

, Antarctica.

Location

Znepole Ice Piedmont is in

on the southeast coast of the

, which forms the tip of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

. It lies south of

Victory Glacier Victory Glacier () is a gently sloping glacier, long, flowing east-southeast from the north end of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula to Prince Gustav Channel immediately north of Pitt Point. It is bounded by Trakiya Heights to the north and ...

and northeast of Dreatin Glacier, and is bounded by Kondofrey Heights to the north and the long narrow rocky ridge featuring Mount Bradley to the west, flowing southeastwards into Prince Gustav Channel, Weddell Sea.

Name

Znepole Ice Piedmont is named after the Znepole region in Western Bulgaria.

Nearby features

Kiten Point

A point forming the south side of the entrance to

Chudomir Cove Victory Glacier () is a gently sloping glacier, long, flowing east-southeast from the north end of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula to Prince Gustav Channel immediately north of Pitt Point. It is bounded by Trakiya Heights to the north and ...

on the coast of Prince Gustav Channel. Situated southwest of

Pitt Point Pitt Point ( ) is a promontory, 90 m high, at the south side of the mouth of Victory Glacier on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula, forming the northeast side of the entrance to Chudomir Cove. The promontory was charted by the Falkland Islands ...

and southeast of

Mount Reece The Kondofrey Heights () are heights that rise to at Skakavitsa Peak, on the southeast side of the Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Location The Kondofrey Heights are in Graham Land on the southeast coast of the Trinity Peninsula, whic ...

. Named after the town of Kiten in Southeastern Bulgaria, and in connection with the freezer vessel Kiten of the Bulgarian company Ocean Fisheries – Burgas whose ships operated in the waters of

South Georgia South Georgia is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. ...

Kerguelen The Kerguelen Islands ( or ; in French commonly ' but officially ', ), also known as the Desolation Islands (' in French), are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic region. They are among the most isolated places on Earth, with the closest t ...

, the

South Orkney Islands The South Orkney Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands, islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the n ...

and Antarctic Peninsula from 1970 to the early 1990s. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany are the pioneers of modern Antarctic fishing industry.

Marmais Point

The ice-covered point on the southeast coast of Trinity Peninsula projecting into Prince Gustav Channel. Situated southwest of Kiten Point, north-northeast of

Gredaro Point Zavera Snowfield (, ) is the glacier extending in a north-south direction and in an east-west direction on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is located in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau, south of Diplock Gla ...

, and southeast of Mount Bradley. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the Bulgarian duke and military commander

Marmais Marmais (; died 924) was a Bulgarian military commander, nobleman and ''komita'' (duke) of a western Bulgarian region ( Sredets or Macedonia) during the reign of Emperor Simeon I (893–927). He was a descendant of an ancient Bulgar family. He par ...

(9th-10th century).

Mount Bradley

. A pyramidal peak high at the southeast end of a ridge descending from Detroit Plateau. The peak is southwest of

. Charted in 1945 by the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...

(FIDS), who named it for Kenneth Granville Bradley, Colonial Secretary in the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; ), commonly referred to as The Falklands, is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and from Cape Dub ...

at the time.

Senokos Nunatak

The rocky hill rising to high in Dreatin Glacier. Situated in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau, west of Mount Bradley and north of

Tufft Nunatak } Aitkenhead Glacier () is a long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, into Prince Gustav Channel (close north of Alectoria Island). Location Aitkenhead Glacier is in Graham Land on the south coast of the Tri ...

. Named after the settlements of

Senokos, Dobrich Province Senokos is a village in Balchik Municipality, Dobrich Province, northeastern Bulgaria. Senokos Nunatak on Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely so ...

and

Senokos, Blagoevgrad Province Senokos (Greek: Σενοκός) is a village in Simitli Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, in southwestern Bulgaria. Senokos Nunatak on Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated cont ...

in Northeastern and Southwestern Bulgaria.

Dreatin Glacier

A long and wide glacier on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau. Situated southwest of Znepole Ice Piedmont and north of

Aitkenhead Glacier } Aitkenhead Glacier () is a long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, into Prince Gustav Channel (close north of Alectoria Island). Location Aitkenhead Glacier is in Graham Land on the south coast of the Tri ...

. Draining the area southwest of Mount Bradley and north of Tufft Nunatak, and flowing southeastwards into Prince Gustav Channel. Named after the settlement of

Dreatin Dreatin is a village in Dragoman Municipality, Sofia Province, western Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the ...

in Western Bulgaria.

References

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