Svetovrachene Glacier
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| Svetovrachene Glacier | |
|---|---|
 Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region | |
  Location of Svetovrachene in Antarctica | |
| Location | Palmer Archipelago |
| Coordinates | 64°15′30″S 62°11′00″W / 64.25833°S 62.18333°W |
| Length | 4 nmi (7 km; 5 mi) |
| Width | 2 nmi (4 km; 2 mi) |
| Thickness | unknown |
| Terminus | Pampa Passage |
| Status | unknown |
Svetovrachene Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Световрачене, romanized: lednik Svetovrachene, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik svɛtoˈvrat͡ʃɛnɛ]) is the 7.5 km long and 4 km wide glacier on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica situated northeast of lower Malpighi Glacier, southeast of Laënnec Glacier and south of Mitev Glacier. It drains the east and south slopes of Taran Plateau and the south slopes of Avroleva Heights, flows southeastwards between Basarbovo Ridge and Einthoven Hill, and enters Pampa Passage northeast of Bov Point.
The glacier is named after the settlement of Svetovrachene in Western Bulgaria.
Svetovrachene Glacier is centred at 64°15′30″S 62°11′00″W / 64.25833°S 62.18333°W. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.
