Dobrodan glacier
| Dobrodan glacier | ||
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| location | Clarence Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Urda Ridge | |
| length | 3.4 km | |
| width | Max. 1.2 km | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 16 ′ 15 ″ S , 54 ° 4 ′ 20 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Southern ocean | |
The Dobrodan Glacier ( Bulgarian Ледник Добродан Lednik Dobrodan ) is a 3.4 km long and 1.2 km wide glacier on Clarence Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from the slopes of Mount Irving and Duclos-Guyot Bluff on the west side of Urda Ridge south of Highton Glacier in a northwesterly direction to the Southern Ocean , which it reaches south of Lebed Point .
British scientists mapped it in 1972 and 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the town of Dobrodan in northern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Dobrodan Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)