Oschane glacier
| Oschane glacier | ||
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| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Stribog Mountains | |
| length | 3 km | |
| width | Max. 2.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 5 '30 " S , 62 ° 28' 0" W | |
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| drainage | Guyou Bay | |
The Oschane Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Ошане lednik Oschane ) is a 3 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier on the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south of the Dodelen Glacier , west of the Lister Glacier and north of the Raliza Glacier from the western slopes of Cushing Peak in the Stribog Mountains in a westerly direction to Guyou Bay .
British scientists mapped it in 1980 and 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2015 after the town of Oshane in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Oshane Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)