Dreatine Glacier
| Dreatine Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| length | 12 km | |
| width | Max. 7.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 54 ′ S , 58 ° 41 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Prince Gustav Canal | |
The Dreatin Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Дреатин Lednik Dreatin ) is a 12 km long and 7.5 km wide glacier on Trinity Peninsula of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located southwest of the Snepole Piedmont Glacier and north of the Aitkenhead Glacier and flows on the northeast side of the Detroit Plateau from the area southwest of Mount Bradley and north of the Tufft Nunatak in a southeastern direction to the Prince Gustav Canal .
German and British scientists carried out its mapping in 1996. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the town of Dreatin in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Dreatin Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)