Marla Glacier
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Location | Trinity Peninsula |
Coordinates | ![]() |
Length | 8 nmi (15 km; 9 mi) |
Width | 1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi) |
Thickness | unknown |
Terminus | Prince Gustav Channel |
Status | unknown |
Marla Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Марла, romanized: lednik Marla, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik ˈmarɫɐ]) is a glacier 8 nmi (15 km; 9 mi) long and 1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi) wide on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau on the southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, situated south of Aitkenhead Glacier and north of Diplock Glacier. It is draining southeastwards along the east slopes of Povien Bluff, then turning east between and Bezenšek Spur, and flowing into Prince Gustav Channel in Weddell Sea.
The glacier is named after Marla River in Northern Bulgaria.
Location[]
Marla Glacier is centred at WikiMiniAtlas
64°00′30″S 58°53′00″W / 64.00833°S 58.88333°W / -64.00833; -58.88333.
See also[]
- List of glaciers in the Antarctic
- Glaciology
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[]
- Marla Glacier SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer Antarctic Place-names Commission in Bulgarian
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links[]
- Marla Glacier. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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