Gorichane glacier

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Gorichane glacier
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location Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago
Mountains Stribog Mountains
length 4.5 km
width Max. 1.7 km
Coordinates 64 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 62 ° 25 ′ 40 ″  W Coordinates: 64 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 62 ° 25 ′ 40 ″  W
Goritschane Glacier (Antarctic Peninsula)
Gorichane glacier
drainage Lanusse Bay

The Goritschane Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Горичане lednik Goritschane ) is a 4.5 km long and 1.7 km wide glacier on the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows east-southeast of Palilula Glacier , southwest of the tip end of the Paré Glacier , west-northwest of the head end of the Laënnec Glacier , northwest of the head end of the Malpighi Glacier and north of the Djerassi Glacier on the western slopes of Stribog Mountains to Lanusse Bay which, in it opens east of Baykal Point .

British scientists mapped it in 1980 and 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2015 after the village of Goritschane in northeastern Bulgaria .

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