Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Balkan Snowfield (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Balkan Snowfield (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Snowfield (12)
This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Ice-covered plateau bounded to the SW by Contell Glacier, to the SE and E by Castillo Nunatak (437m) and Burdick Ridge, and to the N by Perunika Glacier, Livingston Island. Long 3km in SW-NE direction, 2km wide, gently sloping NW toward the hills along Bulgarian Beach. Elevation from 150 to 280m. Spanish mapping of the area in 1991. A name of world culture and geography.
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