Dodelen Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Доделен, romanized: lednik Dodelen, IPA: [ˈlɛdniɡ ˈdɔdɛlɛn]) is the 3.6 km long and 2.8 km wide glacier on Pasteur Peninsula, Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, situated southwest of Podayva Glacier, northwest of Lister Glacier and north of Oshane Glacier. It drains the west slopes of Mount Hunter in Stribog Mountains, and flows westwards into Guyou Bay.
Dodelen Glacier | |
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Location of Dodelen in Antarctica | |
Location | Palmer Archipelago |
Coordinates | 64°04′S 62°29′W / 64.067°S 62.483°W |
Length | 2 nmi (4 km; 2 mi) |
Width | 1.5 nmi (3 km; 2 mi) |
Thickness | unknown |
Terminus | Guyou Bay |
Status | unknown |
The glacier is named after Dodelen River in eastern Balkan Mountains.
Location
editDodelen Glacier is centred at 64°04′00″S 62°29′00″W / 64.06667°S 62.48333°W. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.
See also
editMaps
edit- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
- British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
- Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.
References
edit- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- Dodelen Glacier. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
External links
edit- Dodelen Glacier. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.