Svetovrachene Glacier ( bg, ледник Световрачене, lednik Svetovrachene, ) is the 7.5 km long and 4 km wide glacier on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago,

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situated northeast of lower Malpighi Glacier, southeast of

Laënnec Glacier Laënnec Glacier () is a glacier long draining the northeast slopes of Stribog Mountains and the northwest slopes of Avroleva Heights, and flowing northeast into Hill Bay on the east side of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica ...

and south of

Mitev Glacier Mitev Glacier ( bg, Митев ледник, Mitev lednik, ) is the long and wide glacier on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica situated east of Laennec Glacier. It drains the north slopes of Avroleva Heights and flows north ...

. It drains the east and south slopes of Taran Plateau and the south slopes of

Avroleva Heights Avroleva Heights ( bg, Възвишения Авролева, Vazvisheniya Avroleva) are the mostly ice-covered heights rising to 1137 m ( Opizo Peak)

, flows southeastwards between Basarbovo Ridge and Einthoven Hill, and enters Pampa Passage northeast of

Bov Point Bov Point ( bg, text=нос Бов, italic=yes, ‘Nos Bov’ \'nos 'bov\) is the ice-covered point on the south side of the entrance to Kayak Bay on the east coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. The point is named aft ...

. The glacier is named after the settlement of Svetovrachene in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Svetovrachene Glacier is centred at . British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Svetovrachene Glacier
SCAR

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External links

Svetovrachene Glacier.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image Brabant-Island

Glaciers of the Palmer Archipelago Bulgaria and the Antarctic Brabant Island {{PalmerArchipelago-glacier-stub

Location

See also

Maps

References

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