Sabine Glacier () is a glacier terminating at the sea between Wennersgaard Point and

Cape Kater Charcot Bay () is a bay about wide between Cape Kater and Cape Kjellman along the Davis Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Location Charcot Bay lies at the east end of the Davis Coast on the northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula, at the base of ...

on the northwest coast of Graham Land,

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Location

The Sabine Glacier is on the

Davis Coast Davis Coast () is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advi ...

on the west side of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

. It drains north into the

Orléans Strait Orléans Strait is a strait running NE-SW and separating Trinity Island and Tower Island from Davis Coast, Antarctic Peninsula. Possibly first seen by Nathaniel B. Palmer, captain of the Hero, on November 18, 1820. Named and outlined in part by ...

to the west of

. Lanchester Bay is to the west, Detroit Plateau to the south and

Charcot Bay Charcot Bay () is a bay about wide between Cape Kater and Cape Kjellman along the Davis Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Location Charcot Bay lies at the east end of the Davis Coast on the northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula, at the base of ...

to the east.

Name

Captain Henry Foster gave the name "Cape Sabine" in 1829 to a feature lying southeast of Cape Kater but it has not been possible to identify that cape. This toponym preserves the early use of Sabine in this area. Sir

Edward Sabine Sir Edward Sabine (; 14 October 1788 – 26 June 1883) was an Irish physicist, geodesist,astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, polar explorer, soldier, and the 30th president of the Royal Society. He led the effort to establish a system o ...

(1788-1883), English astronomer and geodesist, was a member of the committee which planned the 1829 voyage of Foster in the ''Chanticleer''.

Features

Features from south to north, include:

Tsarevets Buttress

. A rounded ice-covered buttress extending in N-S direction and in E-W direction, rising to Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 high. Situated on the northwest side of Detroit Plateau. Connected to Korten Ridge on the west-northwest by Podvis Col. Steep and partly ice-free southwest, north and east slopes. Surmounts Temple Glacier to the southwest Sabine Glacier to the northwest and Whitecloud Glacier to the north-northeast and east. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after Tsarevets Hill in the city of

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, the seat of the Bulgarian royal court in the 12th-14th centuries.

Podvis Col

. An ice-covered col of elevation Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 high, extending between Korten Ridge to the northwest and Detroit Plateau to the SE. Overlooking Sabine Glacier to the north and Temple Glacier to the SW. Named after the settlement of Podvis in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Jordanoff Bay

. The wide bay indenting for Davis Coast. Entered between Wennersgaard Point and Tarakchiev Point. Named for the Bulgarian-American pioneer of aviation Assen Jordanoff (1896-1967) who built the first Bulgarian airplane in 1915 and took part in the construction of B-17 and other US planes.

Kamenar Point

. The narrow rocky point on Davis Coast in Graham Land projecting high northwards into Jordanoff Bay. Situated on the east side of the entrance to Hvoyna Cove, east of Wennersgaard Point, south-southwest of Tarakchiev Point, and north of Sratsimir Hill. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlements of Kamenar, Burgas Province and Kamenar, Varna Province in northeastern and southeastern Bulgaria.

Tarakchiev Point

. A point forming the west extremity of Whittle Peninsula. Situated south-southwest of Cape Kater and northeast of Wennersgaard Point. Named for the Bulgarian pioneer of aviation Prodan Tarakchiev (1885-1969) who, while on a joint combat air mission with Radul Milkov during the

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, used the first air-dropped bombs on October 16, 1912.

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