Podayva Glacier

Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Podayva Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Подайва, ‘Lednik Podayva’ \'led-nik po-'day-va\) is the 4.5 km long and 3 km wide glacier on Pasteur Peninsula, Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, situated northeast of Dodelen Glacier and west of Burevestnik Glacier. It drains the north slopes of Stribog Mountains, flows northwards and enters the sea east of Cape Roux and west of Marinka Point.

The glacier is named after the settlement of Podayva in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Podayva Glacier is centred at 64°02′25″S 62°25′30″W / 64.04028°S 62.42500°W / -64.04028; -62.42500Coordinates: 64°02′25″S 62°25′30″W / 64.04028°S 62.42500°W / -64.04028; -62.42500. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

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Brabant Island from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background; Pasteur Peninsula is seen as the nearest part of the island on the right.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.


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