Sopot Ice Piedmont

Sopot Ice Piedmont (Bulgarian: ледник Сопот, romanized: lednik Sopot, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik ˈsɔpot]) is an ice piedmont situated on Burgas Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, northeast of Iskar Glacier and north of Ropotamo, Strandzha and Pautalia Glaciers. It extends 7.5 km in east–west direction and 2.4 km in south–north direction, drains the northern slopes of Delchev Ridge east of Delchev Peak and Ghiaurov Peak, and flows northward into Moon Bay between Rila Point to the west and Malyovitsa Crag near Renier Point to the east.

Sopot Ice Piedmont
Location of Burgas Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Location of Sopot Ice Piedmont in Antarctica Sopot Ice Piedmont (Antarctica)
Location	Livingston Island South Shetland Islands
Coordinates	62°37′15″S 59°54′00″W
Length	4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi)
Width	1.3 nautical miles (2.4 km; 1.5 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Moon Bay
Status	unknown

Sopot Ice Piedmont, with Elena Peak and Yavorov Peak in the background.

Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island.

The glacier is named after the Bulgarian town of Sopot.

Location

Sopot Ice Piedmont is centred at 62°37′15″S 59°54′00″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

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

External links

• Sopot Ice Piedmont. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Sopot Ice Piedmont. Copernix satellite image