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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Tumba Ice Cap (BGR) 64° 04' 50.0" S 60° 55' 00.0" W
Name ID: 137094 Place ID: 18780

The ice cap covering the western half of Chavdar Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated W of Samodiva Glacier, and extending 7.7 km in E-W direction and 4 km in N-S direction. Draining both northwards into Curtiss Bay and southwards into Hughes Bay. British mapping in 1978. Named after the peak of Tumba in Belasitsa Mountain, Southwestern Bulgaria.

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