Berisad Glacier
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Veregava Ridge
Veregava Ridge is the ridge rising to 3100 m in the northeast foothills of Vinson Massif in Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica, and extending 15.7 km in southwest-northeast direction and 6 km in southeast-northwest direction...
, central Sentinel Range
Sentinel Range
The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km wide...
in Ellsworth Mountains
Ellsworth Mountains
The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf. They are bisected by Minnesota Glacier to form the northern Sentinel Range and the southern Heritage...
, Antarctica. It is draining north-northwestwards from Kushla Peak
Kushla Peak
Kushla Peak is the peak rising to 2300 m in Veregava Ridge, central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It surmounts Berisad Glacier to the north-northwest and Hansen Glacier to the southeast....
to join Dater Glacier
Dater Glacier
The Dater Glacier is a steep valley glacier in Antarctica, long and from 1.6 km to 4.8 km wide, flowing NE in a sinuous course from the eastern slopes of Vinson Massif to Rutford Ice Stream which borders the eastern flank of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains...
northeast of Sipey Peak
Sipey Peak
Sipey Peak is the peak rising to 2200 m in Veregava Ridge, central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It surmounts Dater Glacier to the west and north, and Berisad Glacier to the east....
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The glacier is named after the Thracian King Berisad
Berisades
Berisades was a ruler in Thrace, who inherited, in conjunction with Amadocus II and Cersobleptes, the dominions of the Thracian king Cotys on the death of the latter in 358 BC...
, 358-352 BC.
Location
Berisad Glacier is centred at 78°25′20"S 84°51′50"W. US mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.Maps
- Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.