Marla Glacier () is a glacier long and wide on the northeast side of

Detroit Plateau Detroit Plateau () is a major interior plateau of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, with heights between . Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction ...

on the southern

Trinity Peninsula Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the sou ...

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that 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 ...

, Antarctica.

Location

Marla Glacier is in

on the southeast coast of the

, which forms the tip of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

. It is situated south of

Aitkenhead Glacier Aitkenhead Glacier () is a long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, (south of Mancho Buttress and Baley Nunatak and north of Simpson Nunatak and Hitar Petar Nunatak) into Prince Gustav Channel (close north of ...

and north of

Diplock Glacier Diplock Glacier () is a narrow straight glacier, long, flowing eastward from Detroit Plateau, on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, into Prince Gustav Channel south of Alectoria Island. It is situated south of Marla Glacier and north of Zavera ...

. It drains southeastwards along the east slopes of Povien Peak, then turns east between Mount Roberts and Bezenšek Spur, and flows into

Prince Gustav Channel The Prince Gustav Channel was named in 1903 after Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden (later King Gustav V) by Otto Nordenskiöld of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition. The channel is bounded on the west by the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by James ...

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 ...

Name

Marla Glacier glacier is named after Marla River in Northern Bulgaria.

Nearby features

Simpson Nunatak

. A nunatak, high, rising northwest of Mount Roberts, on the south margin of Aitkenhead Glacier. Named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

(UK-APC) for Hugh W. Simpson of the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...

(FIDS), a member of the Detroit Plateau reconnaissance party from

Hope Bay Hope Bay (Spanish: ''Bahía Esperanza'') on Trinity Peninsula, is long and wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound. It is the site of the Argentinian Antarctic settlement Esperanza Base, established i ...

in 1957.

Povien Peak

. An ice-covered peak rising to high in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau. Situated between the upper courses of Marla and Diplock Glaciers, southwest of

Mancho Buttress Mancho Buttress ( bg, рид Манчо, ‘Rid Mancho’ \'rid 'man-cho\) is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1386 mMount Roberts. Bezenšek Spur projects east-southeastwards from the peak. Named after the settlement of Povien in Southern Bulgaria.

Bezenšek Spur

. A long and high wide rocky ridge rising to high in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau. It projects from the southeast side of Povien Peak eastwards between Marla Glacier and Diplock Glacier. Named after the Slovene-Bulgarian linguist

Anton Bezenšek Anton Bezenšek (15 April 1854 – 11 December 1915) was a Slovene linguist, journalist, shorthand expert, and lecturer, who spent most of his life in Bulgaria. He is known as the scholar who adapted the Gabelsberger shorthand system to the Sou ...

(1854-1915) who developed the stenographic system for the Bulgarian language.

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