Ropotamo Glacier

Ropotamo Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Ропотамо, romanized: lednik Ropotamo, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik ropoˈtamo]) is a glacier extending 900 m (3,000 ft) from northeast to southwest and 600 m (2,000 ft) from northwest to southeast on the Burgas Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The glacier is northeast of Dobrudzha Glacier, east-southeast of Iskar Glacier, south of Sopot Ice Piedmont and southwest of Strandzha Glacier. It is bounded by Asen Peak and Delchev Peak to the northwest and north, and flows southeastwards mostly into Yantra Cove, Bransfield Strait.

Ropotamo Glacier
Location of Burgas Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Location of Ropotamo Glacier in Antarctica Ropotamo Glacier (Antarctica)
Location	Livingston Island South Shetland Islands
Coordinates	62°38′55″S 59°55′34″W
Length	0.5 nautical miles (0.93 km; 0.58 mi)
Width	0.3 nautical miles (0.56 km; 0.35 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Yantra Cove
Status	unknown

Ropotamo Glacier from Bransfield Strait, with Delchev Peak in the background.

Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island

The feature is named after the river Ropotamo in Bulgaria.

Location

Ropotamo Glacier is centered at 62°38′55″S 59°55′34″W. Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

• Ropotamo Glacier. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Ropotamo Glacier. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.