Skaplizo Glacier

Skaplizo Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Skaplizo Glacier  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 19523
Name ID: 137895

Feature type: Glacier (12)

Origin

This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

The 4 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier on the W side of Urda Ridge on Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands situated S of Giridava Glacier. Drains the slopes of Mount Irving and Duclos-Guyot Bluff, flows west-northwestwards and enters the Southern Ocean NE of Chichil Point. British mapping in 1972 and 2009. Named after the Thracian settlement of Skaplizo in Southwestern Bulgaria.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
61° 16' 50.0" S
-61.28056°
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Longitude:
54° 11' 00.0" W
-54.18333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
21-Nov-2014

Related information

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