Rogosh Glacier (, ) is the 29 km long and 5 km wide glacier on

Oscar II Coast Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather to the north, and Cape Alexander to the south. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden. ...

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situated east of Brenitsa Glacier, south of Drygalski Glacier, and southwest of Zlokuchene Glacier and Risimina Glacier. Draining southwards from

Kyustendil Ridge Kyustendil Ridge is a partly ice-free ridge rising to Reference Elevation Model of ...

between Lovech Heights and

Ivanili Heights Ivanili Heights (, ‘Ivanilski Vazvisheniya’ \i-va-'nil-ski v&z-vi-'she-ni-ya\) are the heights extending 10 km in north-south direction and 7.5 km wide, rising to 1434 m ( Stargel Peak) on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land. They are bo ...

, and turning eastwards north of Skilly Peak. At the ridge forming

Cape Fairweather Cape Fairweather is a cape in Antarctica that is high and is ice-covered except for rocky exposures along its southeast and east sides. It lies midway between Drygalski Glacier and Evans Glacier on the east coast of Graham Land and divides Norde ...

the glacier branches to flow into Artanes Bay to the south, and into

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west of

Pedersen Nunatak Pedersen Nunatak () is the westernmost of the Seal Nunataks, lying 8 nautical miles (15 km) northeast of Cape Fairweather, off the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula. First charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), and ...

to the east. The feature is named after the settlement of Rogosh in southern

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Location

Rogosh Glacier is centred at .

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mapping in 1974.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

Rogosh Glacier.

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.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Rogosh Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Glaciers of Oscar II Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{OscarIICoast-glacier-stub