Malorad Glacier
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Malorad Glacier is the 14 km long and 10.5 km wide glacier 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...

, 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....

. Situated northeast of Hanson Hill
Hanson Hill
Hanson Hill is a snow-covered hill with two lower summits, one to the north and one to the south, standing 4 nautical miles southeast of Cape Roquemaurel and 3 km west-northwest of Zanoge Hill on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. This hill was roughly charted but left unnamed by...

, north of Srednogorie Heights
Srednogorie Heights
Srednogorie Heights are the heights rising to 1220 m on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated east of Bone Bay, west of Louis-Philippe Plateau, north of Russell West Glacier and south of Malorad Glacier...

, northwest of Louis-Philippe Plateau and southwest of Marescot Ridge
Marescot Ridge
Marescot Ridge is a ridge consisting of numerous ice-covered hills, the highest being Crown Peak at the south end of the ridge. Located 2 nautical miles inland from Marescot Point along the northwest coast of Trinity Peninsula...

. Draining northwestwards to enter Bransfield Strait
Bransfield Strait
Bransfield Strait is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast-southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula. It was named in about 1825 by James Weddell, Master, Royal Navy, for Edward Bransfield, Master, RN, who charted the South Shetland...

 east of Cape Roquemaurel
Cape Roquemaurel
Cape Roquemaurel is a prominent rocky headland at the east side of the entrance to Bone Bay, on the north side of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for Lieutenant Louis de Roquemaurel, second-in-command of the...

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The glacier is named after the settlement of Malorad in northwestern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Location

Malorad Glacier is located at 63°34′00"S 58°43′00"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

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