Dodelen Glacier

Dodelen Glacier
Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region
Map showing the location of Dodelen Glacier
Location of Dodelen in Antarctica
Location Palmer Archipelago
Coordinates 64°04′S 62°29′W / 64.067°S 62.483°W / -64.067; -62.483
Length 2 nmi (4 km; 2 mi)
Width 1.5 nmi (3 km; 2 mi)
Thickness unknown
Terminus Guyou Bay
Status unknown

Dodelen Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Доделен, ‘Lednik Dodelen’ \'led-nik 'do-de-len\) 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.

The glacier is named after Dodelen River in eastern Balkan Mountains.

Location

Dodelen Glacier is centred at 64°04′00″S 62°29′00″W / 64.06667°S 62.48333°W / -64.06667; -62.48333Coordinates: 64°04′00″S 62°29′00″W / 64.06667°S 62.48333°W / -64.06667; -62.48333. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

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This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.


Brabant Island from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background; Pasteur Peninsula is seen as the nearest part of the island on the right.



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