Paramun Buttress

The Edgeworth Glacier () is a glacier long, flowing south-southwestwards from the edge of Detroit Plateau below Wolseley Buttress to the ice shelf west of Sobral Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica.

Location

Edgeworth Glacier is in Graham Land on the Nordenskjöld Coast of the eastern Antarctic Peninsula.
It flows south from the Detroit Plateau, past the Sobral Peninsula to the east to enter the Weddell Sea.

Copernix satellite view

Mapping and name

The Edgeworth Glacier was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960–61, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Richard Lovell Edgeworth, the British inventor of the "portable railway," the first track-laying vehicle, in 1770.

Features

Bombardier Glacier

.
A glacier flowing southeast from the edge of Detroit Plateau, and through a deep trough to join Edgeworth Glacier.
Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960-61).
Named by UK-APC for Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian engineer who developed the "Snowmobile", one of the earliest successful over-snow vehicles (1926-37).

Kavlak Peak

A peak rising to high in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau.
Situated in the west part of a narrow rocky ridge projecting eastwards into the upper course of Dinsmoor Glacier, west-southwest of Darzalas Peak and northwest of Mount Elliott.
Named after the settlement of Kavlak in Northern Bulgaria.

Darzalas Peak

A rocky, mostly ice-free peak rising to high in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau.
Situated between Bombardier Glacier and Dinsmoor Glacier, north of Mount Elliott and east-northeast of Kavlak Peak.
Named after the Thracian god Darzalas.

Mount Elliott

.
Conspicuous mountain, high, with a few small rock exposures and ice-free cliffs on the southeast side, standing northwest of Cape Sobral.
Charted in 1947 by the FIDS and named for F.K. Elliott, leader of the FIDS base at Hope Bay in 1947 and 1948.

Dinsmoor Glacier

.
A glacier flowing east from the south edge of Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, joining Edgeworth Glacier to the northeast of Mount Elliott.
Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960-61).
Named by UK-APC for Charles Dinsmoor of Warren, PA, who invented the "endless tracking machine,, a forerunner of modern tracked vehicles, in 1886; first manufactured commercially by Holt Manufacturing Co. of Stockton, CA, in 1906.

Nodwell Peaks

.
Two outstanding peaks, less than apart, on the east side of Edgeworth Glacier.
Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960-61).
Named by UK-APC after Robin-Nodwell Mfg. Ltd. of Calgary, Canada, makers of Nodwell tracked carriers, used in Antarctica since 1960.

Paramun Buttress

.
An ice-covered buttress rising to high on the southeast side of Detroit Plateau.
Situated between tributaries to Edgeworth Glacier, west-northwest of Kopriva Peak, north-northeast of Trave Peak and south of Volov Peak on Davis Coast.
Steep and partly ice-free west, south and east slopes.
Named after the settlement of Paramun in Western Bulgaria.

Trave Peak

.
A partly ice-covered peak rising to high in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau.
Situated south-southwest of Paramun Buttress, west by south of Chipev Nunatak and northeast of Darzalas Peak.
Precipitous and partly ice-free west and north slopes.
Overlooking Edgeworth Glacier to the N, east and S.
Named after the settlement of Trave in Southern Bulgaria.

Chipev Nunatak

.
A narrow, rocky hill extending in N-S direction and rising to high on the east side of Edgeworth Glacier.
Situated south of Kopriva Peak, northwest of Dolen Peak, east by north of Trave Peak and southeast of Paramun Buttress.
Named after Nesho Chipev (b. 1953), biologist at St. Kliment Ohridski base during the 1994/95 and subsequent seasons.

Rott Inlet

.
Also known as Mundraga Bay (Bulgaria).
A bay between Cape Sobral and Fothergill Point, east of the Detroit Plateau.
The head of the bay is fed by Dinsmoor, Bombardier and Edgeworth glaciers.
Named after Professor Helmut Rott, glaciologist at the University of Innsbruck, for his work on the break up of the Larsen Ice Shelf.

Kopriva Peak

.
A rocky peak rising to high at the south extremity of Wolseley Buttress on the southeast side of Detroit Plateau.
Situated between Albone and Edgeworth Glaciers, southwest of Bolgar Buttress, northwest of Dolen Peak, northeast of Trave Peak and east-southeast of Paramun Buttress.
Surmounting Albone Glacier to the east and Edgeworth Glacier to the W.
Named after the settlement of Kopriva in Western Bulgaria.

References

Sources

*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*

{{Glaciers of Graham Land

Glaciers of Nordenskjöld Coast