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Chumerna Glacier
Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region
Location of Chumernan Glacier in Antarctica
Location	Palmer Archipelago
Coordinates	64°08′10″S 62°06′20″W / 64.13611°S 62.10556°W / -64.13611; -62.10556
Length	1.1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi)
Width	1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	east of Hales Peak
Status	unknown

Chumerna Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Чумерна, romanized: lednik Chumerna, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik t͡ʃoˈmɛrnɐ]) is the 2.2 km long and 1.9 km wide glacier draining the north slopes of Stavertsi Ridge on Albena Peninsula, Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It flows northeastwards to enter the channel between Brabant Island and Liège Island east of Hales Peak.

The glacier is named after Chumerna Peak in eastern Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria.

Location

Chumerna Glacier is centred at 64°08′10″S 62°06′20″W / 64.13611°S 62.10556°W / -64.13611; -62.10556. British mapping in 1980.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Chumerna Glacier. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

External links

Chumerna Glacier. Copernix satellite image

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

Brabant Island seen from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background.

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Erosional	Arête Cirque Cirque stairway Crag and tail Finger lake Fjord Glacial horn Glacial lake Glacial striae Hanging valley Nunatak P-form Ribbon lake Roche moutonnée Suncup Tarn Trough lake Trough valley Tunnel valley U-valley Valley step Zungenbecken
Depositional	Drumlin Erratic block Moraine Moraine-dammed lake Pulju moraine Rogen moraine Sevetti moraine Terminal moraine Till plain Veiki moraine
Glaciofluvial	Alpentor Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur Urstromtal

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