Giridava Glacier ( bg, ледник Гиридава, lednik Giridava, ) is long and wide glacier on the west side of

Urda Ridge Urda Ridge ( bg, Урдин хребет, ‘Urdin Hrebet’ \'ur-din 'hre-bet\) is the mostly ice-covered ridge occupying the interior of southern Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It extends 8 km in north-northeast to ...

on Clarence Island in the

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situated north of

Skaplizo Glacier Skaplizo Glacier ( bg, ледник Скаплизо, lednik Skaplizo, ) is long and wide glacier on the west side of Urda Ridge on Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated south of Giridava Glacier. It drains the sl ...

and southwest of

Bersame Glacier Bersame Glacier ( bg, ледник Берсаме, lednik Bersame, ) is the 2.4 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier on the west side of Urda Ridge on Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated northeast of Giridava ...

. It drains the slopes of Mount Irving, flows northwestwards and enters

Chinstrap Cove Chinstrap Cove is a cove north-east of Escarpada Point on the north-west coast of Clarence Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south ...

east of

Vaglen Point Vaglen Point ( bg, нос Въглен, ‘Nos Vaglen’ \'nos 'v&-glen\) is the rock-tipped point on the southwest side of the entrance to Chinstrap Cove on the northwest coast of Clarence Island (South Shetland Islands), Clarence Island in the So ...

. The glacier is named after the

Thracian The Thracians (; grc, Θρᾷκες ''Thrāikes''; la, Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in ancient history.. "The Thracians were an Indo-European people who occupied t ...

settlement of Giridava in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

Giridava Glacier is centred at . British mapping in 1972 and 2009.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 61 54. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1972.
South Shetland Islands: Elephant, Clarence and Gibbs Islands.
Scale 1:220000 topographic map. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

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 ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Giridava Glacier

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External links

Giridava Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Glaciers of Clarence Island (South Shetland Islands) Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{SouthShetlands-glacier-stub

Location

See also

Maps

References

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