Dreatin Glacier

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Dreatin Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Дреатин, ‘Lednik Dreatin’ \'led-nik dre-a-'tin\) is the 12 km long and 7.5 km wide glacier on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It lies southwest of Znepole Ice Piedmont and north of Aitkenhead Glacier, draining the area southwest of Mount Bradley and north of Tufft Nunatak, and flowing southeastwards into Prince Gustav Channel, Weddell Sea west of Marmais Point.

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

Location

Dreatin Glacier is centred at 63°54′00″S 58°41′00″W / 63.90000°S 58.68333°W / -63.90000; -58.68333Coordinates: 63°54′00″S 58°41′00″W / 63.90000°S 58.68333°W / -63.90000; -58.68333. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updted.

References

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

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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