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Gorichane Glacier ( bg, ледник Горичане, lednik Gorichane, ) is the 4.5 km long and 1.7 km wide glacier on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago,
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
, situated east-southeast of
Palilula Glacier Palilula Glacier ( bg, ледник Палилула, lednik Palilula, ) is the 4 km long and 1.1 km wide steep valley glacier on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, situated south of Ralitsa Glacier, southwest of ...
, southwest of the head of
Paré Glacier Paré Glacier () is a glacier 7 nautical miles (13 km) long and 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) wide, draining the northeast slopes of Stribog Mountains, and flowing east and then northeast into the head of Bouquet Bay on the northeast side ...
, west-northwest of the head of
Laënnec Glacier Laënnec Glacier () is a glacier long draining the northeast slopes of Stribog Mountains and the northwest slopes of Avroleva Heights, and flowing northeast into Hill Bay on the east side of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica ...
, northwest of the head of
Malpighi Glacier Malpighi Glacier () is a glacier long and wide, draining southeast from the Harvey Heights in Stribog Mountains along Basarbovo Ridge to join Mackenzie Glacier and flow into Kayak Bay at the east coast of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archi ...
and north of
Djerassi Glacier Djerassi Glacier ( bg, ледник Джераси, lednik Dzherasi, ) is a 2.8 km long and 1 km wide steep valley glacier situated south of Gorichane Glacier, west of the head of Malpighi Glacier, northwest of the head of Mackenzie ...
. It drains the west slopes of central
Stribog Mountains Stribog Mountains ( bg, планина Стрибог, ‘Planina Stribog’ \pla-ni-'na 'stri-bog\) is the principal mountain system of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica rising to 2498 mLanusse Bay Lanusse Bay () lies between Driencourt Point and Minot Point on the west side of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Its head is fed by Palilula, Gorichane and Djerassi Glaciers, The bay was named "Bahia Lanusse" by the Arge ...
east of
Baykal Point Baykal Point ( bg, text=нос Байкал, italic=yes, ‘Nos Baykal’ \'nos bay-'kal\) is the mostly ice-covered rocky point projecting 800 m south-southwestwards into Lanusse Bay on the west coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelag ...
. The glacier is named after the settlement of
Gorichane Gorichane is a village in Shabla Municipality, Dobrich Province, northeastern Bulgaria.Guide Bulgaria
Accessed May 2 ...
in Northeastern Bulgaria.


Location

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


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


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.


References


Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Gorichane Glacier.
SCAR
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 ...
.


External links


Gorichane Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Glaciers of the Palmer Archipelago Bulgaria and the Antarctic Brabant Island {{PalmerArchipelago-glacier-stub