Waloga glacier

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Waloga glacier
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
length 8 kilometers
width Max. 4 km
Coordinates 78 ° 24 ′ 30 ″  S , 84 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 24 ′ 30 ″  S , 84 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  W
Waloga Glacier (Antarctica)
Waloga glacier
drainage Hansen Glacier

The Waloga Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Валога lednik Waloga ) is an 8 km long and 4 km wide glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Flowers Hills of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, it flows in a north-westerly direction to the Hansen Glacier .

American scientists mapped it in 1988. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the Waloga Cave in northwestern Bulgaria .

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