Location of Rozhen Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Tarnovo Ice Piedmont from
Bransfield Strait , with
Veleka Ridge in the background.
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island.
Tarnovo Ice Piedmont (
Bulgarian : ледник Търново ,
romanized : lednik Tarnovo , IPA:
[ˈlɛdnik ˈtɤrnovo] ) is an
ice piedmont on
Rozhen Peninsula ,
Livingston Island in the
South Shetland Islands ,
Antarctica is situated southeast of
Charity Glacier and west-southwest of
Prespa Glacier . It extends 3.5 km in east-west direction and 2.5 km in north-south direction, is bounded to the west by
Veleka Ridge , to the north by
Arda Peak ,
Gerov Pass and
Shumen Peak , and to the east by
Yambol Peak , and flows southeastwards into
Bransfield Strait east of
Botev Point and west of
Gela Point .
The feature is named after the city of
Tarnovo (
Veliko Tarnovo ) in northern Bulgaria, the capital of the medieval
Second Bulgarian Empire .
Location
The midpoint is located at
62°44′55″S 60°16′10″W / 62.74861°S 60.26944°W / -62.74861; -60.26944 (UK
Directorate of Overseas Surveys mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).
Maps
South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Sheet W 62 60. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
Islas Livingston y Decepción. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:100000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
S. Soccol, D. Gildea and J. Bath.
Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:100000 satellite map. The Omega Foundation, USA, 2004.
L.L. Ivanov et al.,
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map,
Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005
L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010.
ISBN
978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009.
ISBN
978-954-92032-6-4 )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island . Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.
ISBN
978-619-90008-3-0
References
External links
This article includes information from the
Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.