Stob Glacier (, ) is the 16 km long and 13 km wide glacier on

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situated southwest of Chuchuliga Glacier, east-southeast of Somers Glacier and south-southeast of

Talbot Glacier Flandres Bay () is a large bay lying between Cape Renard and Cape Willems, along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Location Flandres Bay is at the west end of the Danco Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is southwes ...

. It is draining from the slopes of

Bruce Plateau Bruce Plateau () is an ice-covered plateau, at least long and about high, extending northeast from the heads of Gould Glacier and Erskine Glacier to the vicinity of Flandres Bay, in Graham Land. It borders Avery Plateau on the south and Forbi ...

north of

Bersin Ridge Bersin Ridge (, ‘Rid Bersin’ \'rid ber-'sin\) is the ice-covered ridge extending 14 km in southwest-northeast direction, 5 km wide and rising to 2016 m

, and flowing eastwards to join

Crane Glacier Crane Glacier () is a narrow glacier which flows in an east-northeasterly direction along the northwest side of Aristotle Mountains to enter Spillane Fjord south of Devetaki Peak, on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Sir Hubert Wilkin ...

. The feature is named after the settlement of Stob in western

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Location

Stob Glacier is located at .

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mapping in 1976.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Stob Glacier.

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.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Stob Glacier

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