Sestrimo Glacier
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Sestrimo Glacier is the 11 km long and 4 km wide glacier on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

 on the Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. Situated southwest of Ogoya Glacier
Ogoya Glacier
Ogoya Glacier is the 8 km long and 3 km wide glacier on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated west-northwest of Laclavère Plateau, northwest of Broad Valley and northeast of Sestrimo Glacier...

, west-northwest of Broad Valley
Broad Valley
Broad Valley is a descriptive name for the broad glacier-filled valley on the south side of Laclavere Plateau, Trinity Peninsula. The name was suggested by V.I. Russell of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey following his survey in 1946....

 and north of Cugnot Ice Piedmont
Cugnot Ice Piedmont
Cugnot Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont in Trinity Peninsula, about 15 nautical miles long and between 3 and 6 nautical miles wide, extending from Russell East Glacier to Eyrie Bay and bounded on the landward side by Louis Philippe Plateau. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands...

. Draining the north slopes of Windy Gap
Windy Gap
Windy Gap is a pass 975 m high, located at the northeast end of Louis Philippe Plateau. It marks the meeting place of three valleys of Trinity Peninsula, namely Broad Valley leading eastward toward Duse Bay, a valley leading northward to Lafond Bay, and another southward to Prince Gustav...

, and flowing northwards east of Mount D'Urville
Mount D'Urville, Antarctica
Mount D’Urville is the ice-covered peak rising to 1085 m in the north foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

 and west of Argentino (Guerrero) Peak to enter Lafond Bay
Lafond Bay
Lafond Bay is a bay, 3 miles wide, lying south of Cockerell Peninsula, Trinity Peninsula. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , and was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Lieutenant Pierre Lafond, a French naval officer on the Astrolabe...

 in Bransfield Strait
Bransfield Strait
Bransfield Strait is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast-southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula. It was named in about 1825 by James Weddell, Master, Royal Navy, for Edward Bransfield, Master, RN, who charted the South Shetland...

 south of Cockerell Peninsula
Cockerell Peninsula
Cockerell Peninsula is an ice-covered, bulb-shaped peninsula between Lafond Bay and Huon Bay on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville. It was named in 1977 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee...

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The glacier is named after the settlement of Sestrimo in southern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Location

Sestrimo Glacier is located at 63°30′00"S 58°08′00"W. British-German mapping in 1996.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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