Poduene Glacier ( bg, ледник Подуене, lednik Poduene, ) is the 3.3 km long and 2.4 km wide glacier on

Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula is the heavily glaciated peninsula projecting 11 km in northwest direction from Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Hughes Bay to the northeast and Charlotte Bay to the south, and separat ...

Danco Coast The Danco Coast () is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it ...

on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated west of

Agalina Glacier Agalina Glacier ( bg, ледник Агалина, lednik Agalina, ) is a long and wide glacier on Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula, Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated east of Poduene Glacier and west of Krapets Glacie ...

. It drains the north slopes of Mount Zeppelin, and flows northwestwards into

Gerlache Strait Gerlache Strait or de Gerlache Strait or Détroit de la Belgica is a channel/strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula. The Belgian Antarctic Expedition, under Lt. Adrien de Gerlache, explored the strait in January an ...

east of Eckener Point. The glacier is named after the settlement of

Poduene Poduyane ( bg, Подуяне ) or Poduene ( ) is a residential complex and a district of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria with 85,996 inhabitants. It is located in the northeastern outskirts of the city and is divided into microregions. Poduyane co ...

in Western Bulgaria, now part of the city of

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and h ...

Location

Poduene Glacier is centred at .

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mapping in 1978.

Maps

* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Poduene Glacier.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

External links

Poduene Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Bulgaria and the Antarctic Glaciers of Danco Coast {{DancoCoast-glacier-stub