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Drygalski Glacier (Antarctica)

Index Drygalski Glacier (Antarctica)

Drygalski Glacier is a broad glacier, long which flows southeast from Herbert Plateau through a rectangular re-entrant to a point immediately north of Sentinel Nunatak on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. [1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 25 relations: Antarctic Peninsula, Balvan, Bulgaria, British Antarctic Survey, Constantine II of Bulgaria, Desislava Cove, Detroit Plateau, Enravota, Erich von Drygalski, Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, Forbidden Plateau, Graham Land, Herbert Plateau, Larsen Ice Shelf, Maxar Technologies, Nordenskjöld Coast, Otto Nordenskjöld, Pedersen Nunatak, Polar Geospatial Center, Seal Nunataks, Solari (village), Swedish Antarctic Expedition, The Catwalk, UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, University of Minnesota, Weddell Sea.

  2. Glaciers of Nordenskjöld Coast

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín 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.

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Balvan, Bulgaria

Balvan is a village of Veliko Tarnovo Province, North Bulgaria.

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British Antarctic Survey

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute.

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Constantine II of Bulgaria

Constantine II (Константин, Konstantin) ruled as emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1397 to 1422.

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Desislava Cove

Desislava Cove is a wide cove indenting for the Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land west of Cape Worsley, Antarctica.

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Detroit Plateau

The Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, with heights between.

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Enravota

Saint Enravota (Свети Енравота) or Voin (Воин, "warrior") or Boyan (Боян) was the eldest son of Omurtag of Bulgaria and the first Bulgarian Christian martyr, as well as the earliest Bulgarian saint to be canonized.

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Erich von Drygalski

Erich Dagobert von Drygalski (February 9, 1865 – January 10, 1949) was a German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist, born in Königsberg, East Prussia.

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Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition

The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and the Antarctic Peninsula which took place in the 1955–56 and 1956–57 southern summers.

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Forbidden Plateau

The Forbidden Plateau is a small, hilly plateau in the east of the Vancouver Island Ranges in British Columbia, northwest of Comox Lake roughly between Mount Albert Edward to the southwest and Mount Washington to the northeast.

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Graham Land

Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz.

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Herbert Plateau

Herbert Plateau is a portion of the central plateau of Graham Land, Antarctica, lying between Blériot Glacier and Drygalski Glacier.

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Larsen Ice Shelf

The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to Smith Peninsula.

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Maxar Technologies

Maxar Technologies Inc. is a space technology company headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, United States, specializing in manufacturing communication, Earth observation, radar, and on-orbit servicing satellites, satellite products, and related services.

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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 consists of 15m tall ice cliffs with ice shelves.

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Otto Nordenskjöld

Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskjöld (6 December 1869 – 2 June 1928) was a Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer.

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Pedersen Nunatak

Pedersen Nunatak is the westernmost of the Seal Nunataks, lying 8 nautical miles (15 km) northeast of Cape Fairweather, off the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula.

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Polar Geospatial Center

The Polar Geospatial Center is a research center at the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs.

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Seal Nunataks

The Seal Nunataks are a group of 16 islands called nunataks emerging from the Larsen Ice Shelf east of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

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Solari (village)

Solari is a village in Gabrovo Municipality, in Gabrovo Province, in northern central Bulgaria.

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Swedish Antarctic Expedition

The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen.

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The Catwalk

"The Catwalk" (S02, E12) is the thirty-eighth episode (production #212) of the science-fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise.

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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) and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI).

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University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota (formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), colloquially referred to as "The U", is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.

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Weddell Sea

The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre.

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See also

Glaciers of Nordenskjöld Coast

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drygalski_Glacier_(Antarctica)

Also known as Balvan Point, Bekker Nunataks, Enravota Glacier, Fender Buttress, Foster Plateau, Konstantin Buttress, Molerov Spur, Odesos Buttress, Ruth Ridge, Sentinel Nunatak, Solari Bay, Stoykite Buttress, Tillberg Peak.