Darvari Glacier
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Darvari Glacier is the 9 km long in northwest-southeast direction and 1.7 km wide glacier on Nordenskjöld Coast
in Graham Land
, Antarctica. It drains the southeast slopes of Detroit Plateau
, flowing between Rice Bastion
and Grivitsa Ridge
, and entering Mundraga Bay
in Weddell Sea
6 km north of Fothergill Point
.
The glacier is named after the settlement of Darvari
in Northern Bulgaria.
Nordenskjold Coast
Nordenskjold Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather. The name was proposed in 1909 by Edwin Swift Balch, for Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geographer and leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, who explored this coast...
in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
, Antarctica. It drains the southeast slopes of Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...
, flowing between Rice Bastion
Rice Bastion
Rice Bastion is a substantial mountain mass surmounted by a small crown of exposed rock which appears slightly higher than the plateau behind it, projecting from the edge of Detroit Plateau, Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, 8 miles southwest of Mount Elliott and 8.8 miles north-northwest of...
and Grivitsa Ridge
Grivitsa Ridge
Grivitsa Ridge is the mostly ice-free ridge extending 6.4 km in northwest-southeast direction, 3 km wide and rising to 1100 m on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...
, and entering Mundraga Bay
Mundraga Bay
Mundraga Bay is the 28.6 km wide bay indenting for 23 km Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is entered east of Fothergill Point and west of Cape Sobral.The bay is named after the medieval fortress of Mundraga in Northeastern Bulgaria.-Maps:...
in Weddell Sea
Weddell Sea
The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha Coast, Queen Maud Land. To the east of Cape Norvegia is...
6 km north of Fothergill Point
Fothergill Point
Fothergill Point is a low rocky coastal point 6.6 miles northeast of Cape Worsley, on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Ian L. Fothergill, leader and meteorological assistant at the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ...
.
The glacier is named after the settlement of Darvari
Darvari, Bulgaria
Darvari, Bulgaria is a village in the municipality of Tryavna, in Gabrovo Province, in northern central Bulgaria....
in Northern Bulgaria.
Location
Darvari Glacier is centred at 64°29′20"S 60°17′00"W. British mapping in 1978.Map
- British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.