Swetowratschene glacier
| Swetowratschene glacier | ||
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| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Taran Plateau in the Stribog Mountains , Avroleva Heights | |
| length | 7.5 km | |
| width | Max. 4 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 15 ′ 30 ″ S , 62 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Pampas passage | |
The Swetowratschene Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Световрачене lednik Swetowratschene ) is a 7.5 km long and 4 km wide glacier on the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . From the eastern and southern slopes of the Taran Plateau and the southern slopes of Avroleva Heights, it flows northeast of the lower section of the Malpighi Glacier , southeast of the Laënnec Glacier and south of the Mitew Glacier in a southeastern direction to the Pampa Passage , which it northeast of the Reached Bov Point .
British scientists mapped it in 1980 and 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2015 after the town of Swetovratschene in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Svetovrachene Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)