Blériot Glacier [SEP] continent
Blériot Glacier
Blériot Glacier () is a short, but wide, glacier lying east of Salvesen Cove and Zimzelen Glacier and southwest of Cayley Glacier on Danco Coast, Graham Land in Antarctica. Photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Louis Blériot (1872–1936), a French aviator who in 1907 flew the first full-size powered monoplane, and who made
Zimzelen Glacier
Zimzelen Glacier (, ‘Lednik Zimzelen’ \'led-nik 'zim-ze-len\) is the 3.7 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier on Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula, Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated east of Krapets Glacier and west of Blériot Glacier It drains northwards, and flowing into the east arm of Salvesen Cove.
The glacier is named after the settlement of Zimzelen in Southern Bulgaria.
Location.
Zimzelen Glacier is centred at . British mapping in 1978