Ovech Glacier (, ; ) is a 3.5 km long glacier on Smith Island,

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the n ...

draining the southeast slopes of

Imeon Range Imeon Range (, ‘Hrebet Imeon’ \'hre-bet i-me-'on\) () is a mountain range occupying the interior of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It extends in southwest-northeast direction between Cape James and Cape Smith, and ...

southeast of

Drinov Peak Drinov Peak (, ) is a peak rising to 1519 mI.M. Howat, C. Porter, B.E. Smith, M.-J. Noh and P. Morin. Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA). Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2022Antarctic REMA Exlorer in Imeon Range on ...

and east of

Popovo Saddle Popovo Saddle (, ‘Popovska Sedlovina’ \'po-pov-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\) is the saddle of elevation 1550 m in Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica bounded by Drinov Peak to the north and Sevlievski Peak to the so ...

and Sevlievski Peak. It is situated southeast of

Vetrino Glacier Vetrino Glacier (, ) is a 3.2 km long glacier on the northwest side of Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated northeast of Yablanitsa Glacier, southwest of Dalgopol Glacier and northwest ...

and Yablanitsa Glacier, and northeast of Krivodol Glacier, and flows east-southeastward into Nikolov Cove on

Boyd Strait Boyd Strait is the wide strait lying between Snow Island and Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and linking Drake Passage and the Bransfield Strait. The strait was named in 1823 by a British expedition under James Weddel ...

. Bulgarian early mapping in 2009. The glacier is named after the medieval fortress of Ovech in northeastern

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Maps

Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c.
from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands.
Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.

References

Ovech Glacier
SCAR

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Ovech Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Smith-Cliff-Frohlich

Glaciers of Smith Island (South Shetland Islands) Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{SmithIsland-glacier-stub

See also

Maps

References

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