Zhenda Glacier (, ) is the 8 km long and 4.8 km wide glacier on the east side of the main crest of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated west of Sabazios Glacier and southeast of Skaklya Glacier. The glacier drains the northeast slopes of Mount Sharp and the east slopes of Mount Barden, flows northeastwards and together with Skaklya Glacier joins Sabazios Glacier west of Mount Lanning in Sostra Heights.

The glacier is named after the settlement of Zhenda in Southern Bulgaria.

Zhenda Glacier

Location

Zhenda Glacier is centred at . US mapping in 1961.

Zhenda Glacier

See also

List of glaciers in the Antarctic

Glaciology

Maps

Newcomer Glacier. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1961. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

Zhenda Glacier

References

Zhenda Glacier SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer Antarctic Place-names Commission (Bulgarian) Basic data (English)

External links

Zhenda Glacier. Copernix satellite image

Glaciers of Ellsworth Land

Bulgaria and the Antarctic