Sabazios Glacier

Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.

Map of northern Sentinel Range.

Sabazios Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Сабазий, ‘Lednik Sabazios’ \'led-nik sa-'ba-ziy\) is the 19 km long and 6 km wide glacier on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated south of Newcomer Glacier, west of Anchialus Glacier, north of Embree Glacier, and east of Zhenda Glacier and Skaklya Glacier. The glacier drains the east slopes of Mount Alf and Mount Sharp, and the north slopes of the side ridge that trends 9.15 km from Mount Dalrymple on the main crest of Sentinel Range east-northeast to Robinson Pass, flows northwards and joins Newcomer Glacier northwest of Mount Lanning in Sostra Heights.

The glacier is named after the Thracian god Sabazios,

Location

Sabazios Glacier is centred at 77°51′00″S 85°48′00″W / 77.85000°S 85.80000°W / -77.85000; -85.80000Coordinates: 77°51′00″S 85°48′00″W / 77.85000°S 85.80000°W / -77.85000; -85.80000. US mapping in 1961.

Tributary Glaciers

Maps

Newcomer Glacier. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1961.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

Sabazios Glacier. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

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

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