Witscha glacier
| Witscha glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| length | 27 km | |
| width | Max. 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 41 ′ S , 85 ° 50 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Rutford Ice Stream | |
The Witscha Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Вича lednik Witscha ) is a 27 km long and 6 km wide glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . On the east side of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, it flows northeast of the Newcomer Glacier and southwest of the Jamen Glacier in a southerly direction along the eastern slopes of Mount Ulmer and Mount Ojakangas , and then at Mount Washburn in a southeastern direction east of Mount Cornwell and Mount Warren and turn southwest of Branishte Peak to the Rutford Ice Stream , which it reaches south of the Foros Spur .
American scientists mapped it in 1961. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the medieval fortress Witscha in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Vicha Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)