Perunika Glacier
The Perunika Glacier is a glacier flowing from from north of the Pliska Ridge westwards into South Bay, north of Bulgarian Beach on the south coast of Livingston Island, one of the South Shetland Islands in the British Antarctic Territory.
The glacier is five miles long and on average two miles wide. It is roughly crescent-shaped, and seen to the east of Pimpirev Ice Wall, south of Saedinenie Snowfield, southwest of Kaliakra Glacier, west of Huron Glacier, and north of the Balkan Snowfield and the head of the Huntress Glacier.
The head of the Perunika Glacier is bounded by Pliska Ridge to the south-southwest, Nesebar Gap to the south, Wörner Gap to the east, and Bowles Ridge to the north-northeast. It drains northwestwards between Burdick Ridge and Bowles Ridge, then north of Rezen Knoll turns west-southwest and flows into the head of Emona Anchorage between Bulgarian Beach and Pimpirev Beach.
The glacier is heavily crevassed in its lower half, receiving ice influx also from Balkan Snowfield and from the part of the island’s ice cap that is located west of Hemus Peak and Gurev Gap and south of Saedinenie Snowfield, and is draining southwards. It exhibits pyroclastic phenomena typical of the region’s glaciology and resulting from volcanic activities at Deception Island just 25 miles miles away.
The glacier was mapped by the Spanish Servicio Geográfico del Ejército in 1991, the lower portion in greater detail. Bulgarian remapping of Perunika Glacier’s terminus from a survey made during the summer of 1995-96; mapping in 2005 and 2009 from the Bulgarian topographic survey in 2004/05.
The glacier was named 'Perunika' by the Bulgarian Antarctic Survey after a village in the Rhodope Mountains in southern Bulgaria. A derivation of the name is from 'Perun', the name of ancient Slavic god.
Location
- Location map: 62°36’24"S, 60°18’33"W
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Perunika Glacier
