Kremena Ice Piedmont

Ice piedmont

An ice piedmont consists of "Ice covering a coastal strip of low-lying land backed by mountains."-References:*The Crossing of Antarctica by Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary Cassell, London, 1958...

is a 2.4 km long and 2.7 km wide glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

 on Smith Island

Smith Island (South Shetland Islands)

Smith Island is long and wide, lying west of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands of the British Antarctic Territory. Surface area ....

 in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica draining the southeast slopes of Imeon Range

Imeon Range

Imeon Range is a mountain range occupying the interior of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending 30 km in southwest-northeast direction between Cape James and Cape Smith, and 6.8 km wide...

 south of Organa Peak

Organa Peak

Organa Peak is a peak rising to 1270 m in Imeon Range on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands. Situated 6.8 km northeast of Cape James, and 1.85 km south-southwest of Riggs Peak. Overlooking Letnitsa Glacier to the east and southeast, and Kremena Ice Piedmont to the south. Bulgarian...

. Draining southeastwards to flow into Osmar Strait

Osmar Strait

Osmar Strait is the wide strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica between Smith Island to the northwest and Low Island to the southeast.The strait is named after the settlement of Osmar in northeastern Bulgaria.-Location:...

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The glacier is named after the settlements of Kremena

Kremena

Kremena is a village in Balchik Municipality, Dobrich Province, northeastern Bulgaria....

 in northeastern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

, and Upper and Lower Kremena

Dolna Kremena

Dolna Kremena is a village located in Mezdra Municipality, within Bulgaria's district of Vratsa, and is located approximately 4 kilometers from the town of Mezdra. Places of interest include one medieval church, now in ruins, and one more recently constructed which contains a collection of Orthodox...

in northwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Kremena Ice Piedmont is located at 63°04′00"S 62°38′00"W. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Map

• 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