Yozola Glacier

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Location of Alexander Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Ant-pen map Alexander.PNG
Location of Alexander Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Yozola Glacier (Bulgarian : ледник Йозола, romanized: lednik Yozola, IPA: [ˈlɛdnikˈjɔzoɫa] ) is the 5 km long and 1.7 km wide glacier in the Sofia University Mountains situated in the northern portion of Alexander Island in Antarctica, and draining north-northwestwards between Mount Braun and Balan Ridge to flow into Palestrina Glacier.

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The glacier is named after Yozola Lake in the Rila Mountain, Bulgaria.

Location

Yozola Glacier is located at 69°26′30″S71°23′50″W / 69.44167°S 71.39722°W / -69.44167; -71.39722 . British mapping in 1963.

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References

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