Divdyadovo Glacier
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Divdyadovo Glacier ( bg, ледник Дивдядово, lednik Divdyadovo, ) is the long and wide glacier in
Petvar Heights Petvar Heights ( bg, Петварски възвишения, Petvarski vazvisheniya, ) are the heights rising to 2492 mSentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains,
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situated northeast of Carey Glacier and southeast of
Drama Glacier Drama Glacier ( bg, ледник Драма, lednik Drama, ) is the 10 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier in Petvar Heights on the east side of southern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, which is situated north of Care ...
. It is flowing northeastwards, then north of
Ruset Peak Ruset Peak ( bg, връх Русет, vrah Ruset, ) is the peak rising to 1453 m ...
turning east-southeastwards to leave the range southeast of Long Peak. The feature is named after the settlement of Divdyadovo in northeastern
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Location

Divdyadovo Glacier is centred at . US mapping in 1988.


See also

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List of glaciers in the Antarctic There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. Th ...
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Glaciology Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or more generally ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, climato ...


Maps


Vinson Massif.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.


References


Divdyadovo Glacier
SCAR A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other organs, and tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a na ...
Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about t ...

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)


External links


Divdyadovo Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Glaciers of Ellsworth Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{EllsworthLand-glacier-stub