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Vicha Glacier ( bg, ледник Вича, lednik Vicha, ) is the 27 km long and 6 km wide glacier in
Gromshin Heights Gromshin Heights ( bg, Громшински възвишения, ‘Gromshinski Vazvisheniya’ \'grom-shin-ski v&-zvi-'she-ni-ya\) are the heights rising to 2731 m
on the east side of northern
Sentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km (15 to 30 mi) wide. Man ...
in
Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minnesota ...
,
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. It is situated northeast of
Newcomer Glacier Newcomer Glacier () is a glacier long transecting the north part of the Sentinel Range, flowing from the vicinity of Allen Peak southeast between Gromshin Heights and the main ridge of range, and then east between Gromshin Heights and Sost ...
and southwest of Yamen Glacier. The glacier drains southwards along the east slopes of
Mount Ulmer Mount Ulmer () is a prominent peak situated 2 miles north of Mount Washburn in Gromshin Heights on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It surmounts the head of Vicha Glacier to the east and Newc ...
and Mount Ojakangas, then turns southeast at
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, flows east of Mount Cornwell and Mount Warren, and southwest of
Branishte Peak Branishte Peak ( bg, връх Бранище, vrah Branishte, ) is the ice-covered peak rising to 1888 mRutford Ice Stream Rutford Ice Stream () is a major Antarctic ice stream, about long and over wide, which drains southeastward between the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains and Fletcher Ice Rise into the southwest part of Ronne Ice Shelf. Named by US-ACAN ...
south of
Foros Spur Foros Spur ( bg, рид Форос, ‘Rid Foros’ \'rid 'fo-ros\) is the 7.5 km long and 5.7 km wide rocky ridge forming the southeast extremity of Gromshin Heights on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, ...
.Vicha Glacier.
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The glacier is named after the ancient and medieval fortress of Vicha in Northeastern Bulgaria.


Location

Vicha Glacier is centred at . US mapping in 1961.


See also

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List of glaciers in the Antarctic There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. Th ...
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Glaciology Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or more generally ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, climato ...


Maps


Newcomer Glacier.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1961.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.


Notes


References


Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer
Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...
(Bulgarian)
Basic data
(English)


External links


Vicha Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Glaciers of Ellsworth Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{EllsworthLand-glacier-stub