Dodelen Glacier
Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region
Map showing the location of Dodelen Glacier
Map showing the location of Dodelen Glacier
Location of Dodelen in Antarctica
LocationPalmer Archipelago
Coordinates64°04′S 62°29′W / 64.067°S 62.483°W / -64.067; -62.483
Length2 nmi (4 km; 2 mi)
Width1.5 nmi (3 km; 2 mi)
Thicknessunknown
TerminusGuyou Bay
Statusunknown

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.

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; -62.48333. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

See also

Maps

References

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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