Orisari glacier
| Orisari glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains | |
| length | 4.7 km | |
| width | ⌀ 0.8 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 26 ′ 10 ″ S , 84 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Dater Glacier | |
The Orisari Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Оризари lednik Orisari ) is a 4.7 km long and 0.8 km wide glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . On the east side of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, it flows in the Veregava Ridge from the northern slopes of Mount Waldron in a north-northwest direction to the Dater Glacier , which it reaches west of Sipey Peak .
American scientists mapped it in 1988. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the town of Orisari in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Orizari Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)