Marla Glacier is the 14 km long and 1.5 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 southern 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, situated south of Aitkenhead Glacier

Aitkenhead Glacier

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

 and north of Diplock Glacier

Diplock Glacier

Diplock Glacier is a narrow straight glacier, 10 miles long, flowing eastward from Detroit Plateau, on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, into Prince Gustav Channel 5 miles south of Alectoria Island. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by United Kingdom Antarctic...

. It is draining southeastwards along the east slopes of Povien Peak

Povien Peak

Povien Peak is the ice-covered peak rising to 1550 m between the upper courses of Marla and Diplock Glaciers, in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, then turning east between Mount Roberts and Bezenšek Spur

Bezenšek Spur

Bezenšek Spur is the 5.5 km long and 800 m wide rocky ridge rising to 900 m in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, and flowing 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...

 in 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 Marla River in Northern Bulgaria.

Maps

• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.