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Paspal Glacier ( bg, ледник Паспал, lednik Paspal, ) is the 14.5 km long and 6.5 km wide glacier on
Oscar II Coast Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather to the north, and Cape Alexander to the south. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden. ...
,
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 ...
in
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situated southeast of
Montgolfier Glacier Montgolfier Glacier () is a glacier situated between Rozier Glacier and Woodbury Glacier and flowing between Balis Ridge and Bacho Kiro Peak into Piccard Cove on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. The glacier was mapped by the Falkla ...
and west of
Hektoria Glacier Hektoria Glacier () is a glacier flowing south from the area around Mount Johnston between Mount Quandary and Zagreus Ridge into Vaughan Inlet next west of Brenitsa Glacier and east of Green Glacier, on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsul ...
. Draining from the southeast slopes of
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and flowing southeastwards between
Zagreus Ridge Zagreus Ridge ( bg, хребет Загрей, ‘Hrebet Zagrey’ \'hre-bet za-'grey\) is the partly ice-free ridge extending 10 km and 3.8 km wide, rising to 1061 m ( Marchaevo Peak) on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land. It descends from F ...
and
Dugerjav Peak Dugerjav Peak (Mongolian language, Mongolian: Дүгэржав оргил, bg, връх Дугержав, vrah Dugerzhav, ) is the rocky peak rising to 1208 mGreen Glacier Green Glacier () is a glacier on the east side of Graham Land, Antarctica, long and wide, flowing from the plateau northeast between Dugerjav Peak and Rugate Ridge, and then east into Vaughan Inlet next north of Pirne Peak and south of the t ...
. The feature is named after the settlement of Paspal in southern
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.


Location

Paspal Glacier is centred at . British mapping in 1974.


Maps


Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.


References


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


External links


Paspal Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Glaciers of Oscar II Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{OscarIICoast-glacier-stub