Podajwa glacier
| Podajwa glacier | ||
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| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Stribog Mountains | |
| length | 4.5 km | |
| width | Max. 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 2 ′ 20 ″ S , 62 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Southern ocean | |
The Podajwa Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Подайва lednik Podajwa ) is a 4.5 km long and 3 km wide glacier on the Pasteur Peninsula of the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows northeast of the Dodelen Glacier and west of the Burewestnik Glacier from the northern slopes of the Stribog Mountains in a northerly direction and flows into the sea east of Cape Roux and west of Marinka Point .
British scientists mapped it in 1980 and 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2015 after the village of Podajwa in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Podayva Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)