Ogoya Glacier ( bg, ледник Огоя, lednik Ogoya, ) is the 8 km long and 3 km wide glacier on

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 ...

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. Situated west-northwest of

Laclavère Plateau Laclavère Plateau () is a plateau, long and from wide, rising to between Misty Pass and Theodolite Hill, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The plateau rises south of Schmidt Peninsula and the Chilean scientific station, Base General Bernardo O' ...

, northwest of

Broad Valley Broad Valley () is a descriptive name for the broad glacier-filled valley on the south side of Laclavere Plateau, Trinity Peninsula. The name was suggested by V.I. Russell of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Surv ...

and northeast of

Sestrimo Glacier Lafond Bay () is a bay, wide, which lies south of the Cockerell Peninsula, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Location Lafond Bay is in Graham Land on the north coast of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is ...

. Draining the northeast slopes of

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, the north side of

Misty Pass Misty Pass () is a pass, high, between the head of Broad Valley and Ogoya Glacier descending north to Bransfield Strait, situated southeast of Cape Ducorps on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Surv ...

and the northwest slopes of

Dabnik Peak Dabnik Peak ( bg, връх Дъбник, vrah Dabnik, ) is a peak rising to 1038 m ...

, and flowing northwards to enter Huon Bay in Bransfield Strait. The glacier is named after the settlement of Ogoya in northwestern

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Location

Ogoya Glacier is located at . German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps

Trinity Peninsula.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Ogoya 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

Ogoya Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Glaciers of Trinity Peninsula Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{TrinityPeninsula-glacier-stub

Location

See also

Maps

References

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