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Dobrodan Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Добродан, romanized: lednik Dobrodan, IPA: [ˈlɛdniɡ dobroˈdan]) is the 3.4 km long and 1.2 km wide glacier on the east side of Urda Ridge on Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated south of Highton Glacier. It drains the slopes of Mount Irving and Duclos-Guyot Bluff, flows northeastwards and enters the Southern Ocean south of Lebed Point.
The glacier is named after the settlement of Dobrodan in Northern Bulgaria.




Location


Dobrodan Glacier is centred at 61°16′15″S 54°04′20″W. British mapping in 1972 and 2009.




See also


List of glaciers in the Antarctic
Glaciology




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), 1993–2016.




References


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




External links


Dobrodan Glacier. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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• Dobrodan Glacier
• List of glaciers of South Shetland Islands
• Duclos-Guyot Bluff
• Banari Glacier
• Treskavets Glacier
• Ravelin Ridge
• Orcho Glacier
• Jubilee Peak
• Gesha Point
• Bulgarian toponyms in Antarctica (D)