Ruen Icefall
The Ruen Icefall (Template:Langx, Script error: No such module "IPA".) on Rozhen Peninsula in eastern Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica is situated south of Huntress Glacier, northwest of Prespa Glacier and northeast of Peshtera and Charity Glaciers. It descends towards False Bay from the circus overlooked by Simeon Peak, St. Cyril Peak and St. Methodius Peak in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains.
Ruen is the summit of Osogovo Mountain in south-western Bulgaria.
Location
The icefall is centered at Template:Coord, which is 2 km north-northwest of St. Methodius Peak, 3.43 km east-northeast of Ogosta Point, and 4.39 km southeast of Napier Peak on Hurd Peninsula (UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991 and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).
Maps
- L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. Template:ISBN
References
- Ruen Icefall. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
- Ruen Icefall. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.