Kasabova Glacier is the 6 km long and 3.5 km wide glacier on Davis Coast

Davis Coast

Davis Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of...

 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...

 on the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. Draining the slopes of Mount Bris

Mount Bris

Mount Bris is a broad ice-covered mountain with precipitous and partly ice-free slopes except to the southeast, the summit of Korten Ridge on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. The peak rises to west of the head of Sabine Glacier and south of Cape Kater...

, Chubra Peak

Chubra Peak

Chubra Peak is the peak rising to 1422 m east of Temple Glacier and south of Kasabova Glacier in Korten Ridge on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctic.The peak is named after the settlement of Chubra in eastern Bulgaria.-Location:...

, Sredorek Peak

Sredorek Peak

Sredorek Peak is the peak rising to 1224 m in Korten Ridge east of Kasabova Glacier and west of Sabine Glacier on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica.The peak is named after the settlements of Sredorek in eastern and western Bulgaria.-Location:...

 and Chanute Peak

Chanute Peak

Chanute Peak is a peak in Korten Ridge on the east side of Lanchester Bay, south of Wennersgaard Point, Davis Coast in Graham Land. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Octave Chanute, American designer of gliders who first introduced moveable planes for the purpose of...

 in Korten Ridge

Korten Ridge

Korten Ridge is the ridge extending 18 km in south-north direction and 9 km wide, rising to 1673 m on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, the glacier flows northwestwards to enter Orléans Strait

Orleans Strait

Orleans Strait is a strait running NE-SW and separating Trinity Island and Tower Island from Davis Coast, Antarctic Peninsula. Possibly first seen by Nathaniel B. Palmer, captain of the Hero, on November 18, 1820. Named and outlined in part by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1837–40, under...

 at the head of Lanchester Bay

Lanchester Bay

Lanchester Bay is a bay 7 nautical miles wide lying east of Havilland Point, along the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955-57 and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names...

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The glacier is named for the Bulgarian pioneer of aviation Rayna Kasabova

Rayna Kasabova

Rayna Kasabova was a Bulgarian air force pilot and the first womаn in the world who participated in a military flight...

 (1897-1957), a volunteer in the First Balkan War

First Balkan War

The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved rapid success...

 who became the first woman to take part in a combat air

Aerial warfare

Aerial warfare is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines in warfare, including military airlift of cargo to further the national interests as was demonstrated in the Berlin Airlift...

mission on October 30, 1912.

Location

Kasabova Glacier is located at 63°56′20"S 59°54′30"W. British-German mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.