Desudava Glacier () is the long and wide glacier on
Nordenskjöld Coast
The Nordenskjöld Coast (64° 30' S 60° 30' W) is located on the Antarctic Peninsula, more specifically Graham Land, which is the top region of the Peninsula. The Peninsula is a thin, long ice sheet with an Alpine-style mountain chain. The coast ...
in
Graham Land
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, Antarctica situated south of
Dinsmoor Glacier and east-northeast of Boryana Glacier.
Location
Desudava Glacier is on the
Nordenskjöld Coast
The Nordenskjöld Coast (64° 30' S 60° 30' W) is located on the Antarctic Peninsula, more specifically Graham Land, which is the top region of the Peninsula. The Peninsula is a thin, long ice sheet with an Alpine-style mountain chain. The coast ...
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 is southeast of the
Detroit Plateau and north of the
Weddell Sea
The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha C ...
.
It is drains the northeast slopes of Gusla Peak and adjacent slopes of
Detroit Plateau further north, the south slopes of Ivats Peak and the west slopes of
Mount Elliott, and flows southwards into
Mundraga Bay
The Edgeworth Glacier () is a glacier long, flowing south-southwestwards from the edge of Detroit Plateau below Wolseley Buttress to the ice shelf west of Sobral Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica.
Location
Edgeworth Glacier is in Graham La ...
next east of Boryana Glacier.
Name
Desudava Glacier is named after the ancient
Thracian
The Thracians (; ; ) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe in ancient history.. "The Thracians were an Indo-European people who occupied the area that today is shared between north-eastern Greece, ...
town of Desudava in southwestern
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...
.
Features
Features and nearby features include:
Ivats Peak
.
A peak rising to high in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau.
Situated at the west extremity of a rocky ridge linked to
Mount Elliott, south-southeast of
Kavlak Peak and northeast of Gusla Peak.
Surmounting Dinsmoor Glacier to the north and Desudava Glacier to the south.
Named after the 10–11th century Bulgarian
boyar
A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Bulgaria, Kievan Rus' (and later Russia), Moldavia and Wallachia (and later Romania), Lithuania and among Baltic Germans. C ...
and warrior
Ivats
Ivats () or Ibatzes was a Bulgarian nobleHistory of the Byzantine Empire from DCCXVI to MLVII, George Finlay, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, , p. 385. and military commander in the late 10th and early 11th centuries. He served three Bulgarian Emperors ...
.
Gusla Peak
.
A peak rising to high in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau.
Situated at the north-northwest extremity of a narrow long rocky ridge, south-southwest of Kavlak Peak.
Surmounting Desudava Glacier to the north and east, and Boryana Glacier to the south.
Named after the settlement of Gusla in Northeastern Bulgaria.
Vedrare Nunatak
.
A rocky peak rising to high in eastern Desudava Glacier.
Situated southeast of Ivats Peak, southwest of Mount Elliott and north-northeast of Zgorigrad Nunatak.
Named after the settlement of Vedrare in Southern Bulgaria.
Zgorigrad Nunatak
.
A rocky peak rising to high in eastern Desudava Glacier.
Situated east-southeast of Gusla Peak, south-southwest of Vedrare Nunatak and north-northeast of Storgozia Nunatak.
Named after the settlement of Zgorigrad in Northwestern Bulgaria.
Storgozia Nunatak
.
A rocky hill rising to high in eastern Desudava Glacier.
Situated east of Rice Bastion, southeast of Gusla Peak, and south-southwest of Zgorigrad Nunatak.
Named after the ancient town of Storgozia in Northern Bulgaria.
Rice Bastion
.
A substantial mountain mass surmounted by a small crown of exposed rock which appears slightly higher than the plateau behind it, projecting from the edge of Detroit Plateau, southwest of
Mount Elliott.
Mapped from surveys by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies
The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...
(FIDS) (1960-61).
Named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...
(UK-APC) for Lee Rice, FIDS surveyor at
Hope Bay Hope Bay may refer to:
* Hope Bay, Antarctica
Hope Bay (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Bahía Esperanza'') () is a bay long and wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound.
Location
Hope Bay is in Graham ...
(1957-58), who worked in this area.
Boryana Glacier
,
An long and wide glacier situated west-southwest of Desudava Glacier and northeast of Darvari Glacier.
It drains the southeast slopes of Detroit Plateau, flowing between Rice Bastion and Gusla Peak, and turning southwards to enter Mundraga Bay between Desudava Glacier and Darvari Glacier.
Named after the settlement of Boryana in Northeastern Bulgaria.
Darvari Glacier
.
A long in NW-SE direction and wide glacier situated southwest of Boryana Glacier and northeast of
Zaychar Glacier.
It drains the southeast slopes of Detroit Plateau, flowing between Rice Bastion and
Grivitsa Ridge, and entering Mundraga Bay north of
Fothergill Point.
Named after the settlement of
Darvari in Northern Bulgaria.
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