Svetovrachene Glacier (, ) is the 7.5 km long and 4 km wide glacier on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica situated northeast of lower Malpighi Glacier, southeast of Laënnec Glacier and south of Mitev Glacier. It drains the east and south slopes of Taran Plateau and the south slopes of Avroleva Heights, flows southeastwards between Basarbovo Ridge and Einthoven Hill, and enters Pampa Passage northeast of Bov Point.

The glacier is named after the settlement of Svetovrachene in Western Bulgaria.

Svetovrachene Glacier

Location

Svetovrachene Glacier is centred at . British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

Svetovrachene Glacier

See also

List of glaciers in the Antarctic

Glaciology

Maps

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.

Svetovrachene Glacier

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English) Svetovrachene Glacier SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

Svetovrachene Glacier. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

Glaciers of the Palmer Archipelago

Bulgaria and the Antarctic

Brabant Island