Dreatin Glacier is the 12 km long and 7.5 km wide glacier on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

 on Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica. It lies southwest of Znepole Ice Piedmont

Znepole Ice Piedmont

Znepole Ice Piedmont is the glacier extending 13 km in northwest-southeast direction and 7.5 km wide on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

 and north of Aitkenhead Glacier

Aitkenhead Glacier

Aitkenhead Glacier is a long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, into Prince Gustav Channel...

, draining the area southwest of Mount Bradley

Mount Bradley

Mount Bradley is a pyramidal peak, high, at the southeast end of a ridge descending from Detroit Plateau, surmounting Znepole Ice Piedmont to the east and Dreatin Glacier to the southwest. The peak is southwest of Mount Reece in southern Trinity Peninsula. It was charted in 1945 by the Falkland...

 and north of Tufft Nunatak

Tufft Nunatak

Tufft Nunatak is a small nunatak 3 nautical miles southwest of Mount Bradley and 4.6 km south of Senokos Nunatak, Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Ronald W...

, and flowing southeastwards into Prince Gustav Channel

Prince Gustav Channel

The Prince Gustav Channel was named in 1903 after Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden by Otto Nordenskiöld of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.The channel is bounded on the west by the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by James Ross Island...

, Weddell Sea

Weddell Sea

The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha Coast, Queen Maud Land. To the east of Cape Norvegia is...

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The glacier is named after the settlement of Dreatin in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Dreatin Glacier is centred at 63°54′00"S 58°41′00"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.