- Source: Znepole Ice Piedmont
Znepole Ice Piedmont (63°52′30″S 58°33′20″W) is the glacier extending 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) in northwest-southeast direction and 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) wide on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.
Location
Znepole Ice Piedmont is in Graham Land on the southeast coast of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
It lies south of Victory Glacier and northeast of Dreatin Glacier, and is bounded by Kondofrey Heights to the north and the 5.2 kilometres (3.2 mi) 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
=63°52′55″S 58°26′08″W
A point forming the south side of the entrance to Chudomir Cove on the coast of Prince Gustav Channel.
Situated 4.3 kilometres (2.7 mi) southwest of Pitt Point and7.56 kilometres (4.70 mi) southeast of Mount Reece.
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, Kerguelen, the South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands 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
=63°55′22″S 58°31′25″W
The ice-covered point on the southeast coast of Trinity Peninsula projecting into Prince Gustav Channel.
Situated 6.3 kilometres (3.9 mi) southwest of Kiten Point, 21.6 kilometres (13.4 mi) north-northeast of Gredaro Point, and 6.65 kilometres (4.13 mi) southeast of Mount Bradley. German-British mapping in 1996.
Named after the Bulgarian duke and military commander Marmais (9th-10th century).
= Mount Bradley
=63°53′S 58°37′W.
A pyramidal peak 835 metres (2,740 ft) high at the southeast end of a ridge descending from Detroit Plateau.
The peak is 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) southwest of Mount Reece .
Charted in 1945 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), who named it for Kenneth Granville Bradley, Colonial Secretary in the Falkland Islands at the time.
= Senokos Nunatak
=63°53′08″S 58°41′41″W
The rocky hill rising to 624 metres (2,047 ft) high in Dreatin Glacier.
Situated in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau, 3.27 kilometres (2.03 mi) west of Mount Bradley and 4.6 kilometres (2.9 mi) north of Tufft Nunatak.
Named after the settlements of Senokos, Dobrich Province and Senokos, Blagoevgrad Province in Northeastern and Southwestern Bulgaria.
= Dreatin Glacier
=63°54′00″S 58°41′00″W
A 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long and 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) wide glacier on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau.
Situated southwest of Znepole Ice Piedmont and north of Aitkenhead Glacier.
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 in Western Bulgaria.
References
Sources
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Geological Survey.
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
