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