Zaychar Glacier is the 7.5 km long and 2.7 km wide glacier on Nordenskjöld Coast

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 east-southeastwards between 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 Kableshkov Ridge

Kableshkov Ridge

Kableshkov Ridge is the rocky ridge extending 4.5 km in east-southeast direction, 1.5 km wide and rising to 550 m on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, and entering Odrin Cove

Odrin Cove

Odrin Cove is the 8.5 km wide cove indenting for 6.6 km Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is entered southwest of Fothergill Point.The cove is named after the settlements of Odrintsi in Northeastern and Southern 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...

 5 km northwest 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 ...

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The glacier is named after the settlement of Zaychar

Zaychar

Zaychar is a village in the municipality of Ruen, in Burgas Province, in southeastern Bulgaria.Zaychar Glacier on Graham Land in Antarctica is named after the settlement.-References:...

in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Zaychar Glacier is centred at 64°31′25"S 60°20′30"W. British mapping in 1978.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.