Yozola Glacier
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Yozola Glacier is the 5 km long and 1.7 km wide glacier
in Sofia University Mountains
on Alexander Island
in Antarctica draining north-northwestwards between Mount Braun
and Balan Ridge
to flow into Palestrina Glacier
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The glacier is named Yozola Lake in Rila Mountain, Bulgaria
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Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
in Sofia University Mountains
Sofia University Mountains
Sofia University Mountains are a cluster of three small mountains, 14 km long in the north-south direction and 5.5 km wide, rising to 1500 m in north-western Alexander Island.They are located south-southeast of Havre Mountains, southwest of Rouen Mountains, northwest of Elgar Uplands, east...
on Alexander Island
Alexander Island
Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...
in Antarctica draining north-northwestwards between Mount Braun
Mount Braun
Mount Braun is a mountain rising to about , forming the northeast extremity of the Sofia Mountains of Alexander Island. The feature forms the northeast part of a horseshoe-shaped ridge east-southeast of Mount Holt. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Commander...
and Balan Ridge
Balan Ridge
Balan Ridge is the ridge rising to 800 m in Sofia University Mountains on Alexander Island in Antarctica. The ridge is situated 7 km north by east of Mount Kliment Ohridski, extending 4.5 km in north-south direction, 1.45 km wide, and is bounded by Poste Valley to the east, by Palestrina Glacier...
to flow into Palestrina Glacier
Palestrina Glacier
Palestrina Glacier is a glacier in the north part of Alexander Island, 11 nautical miles long and 8 nautical miles wide, flowing west from Nichols Snowfield into Lazarev Bay. Mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947–48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands...
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The glacier is named Yozola Lake in Rila Mountain, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
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Location
Yozola Glacier is located at 69°26′30"S 71°23′50"W. British mapping in 1963.Maps
- British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3127. DOS 610 - W 69 70. Tolworth, UK, 1971.
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.