Znepole Ice Piedmont
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Znepole 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 the glacier extending 13 km in northwest-southeast direction and 7.5 km wide on Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica. It lies south of Victory Glacier
Victory Glacier
Victory Glacier is a gently sloping glacier, 8 nautical miles long, flowing east-southeast from the north end of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula to Prince Gustav Channel immediately north of Pitt Point. Bounded by Trakiya Heights to the north and Kondofrey Heights to the south...

 and northeast of Dreatin Glacier
Dreatin Glacier
Dreatin Glacier is the 12 km long and 7.5 km wide glacier on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, and is bounded by Kondofrey Heights
Kondofrey Heights
Kondofrey Heights are the heights rising to 1119 m on the southeast side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated east of Detroit Plateau, south of Victory Glacier and west of Prince Gustav Channel, Weddell Sea. Linked to Detroit Plateau by Podgumer Col...

 to the north and the 5.2 km long narrow rocky ridge featuring Mount Bradley
Mount Bradley
Mount Bradley is a pyramidal peak, high, at the southeast end of a ridge descending from Detroit Plateau, surmounting Znepole Ice Piedmont to the east and Dreatin Glacier to the southwest. The peak is southwest of Mount Reece in southern Trinity Peninsula. It was charted in 1945 by the Falkland...

 to the west, flowing southeastwards into Prince Gustav Channel
Prince Gustav Channel
The Prince Gustav Channel was named in 1903 after Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden by Otto Nordenskiöld of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.The channel is bounded on the west by the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by James Ross Island...

, Weddell Sea
Weddell Sea
The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha Coast, Queen Maud Land. To the east of Cape Norvegia is...

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The feature is named after the Znepole region in Western Bulgaria

Location

Znepole Ice Piedmont is centred at 63°52′30"S 58°33′20"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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