Nadjakov Glacier
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Nadjakov Glacier is the 5.5 km long and 2 km wide glacier on Arctowski Peninsula
Arctowski Peninsula
The Arctowski Peninsula is a peninsula, long in a north-south direction, lying between Andvord Bay and Wilhelmina Bay on the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache. The name, for Henryk Arctowski of that expedition, was...

 on Danco Coast
Danco Coast
Danco Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, who named it for Lieutenant Emile Danco who died on the expedition....

 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....

. Situated east of Wheatstone Glacier
Wheatstone Glacier
Wheatstone Glacier is a glacier on the west coast of Graham Land. It enters Errera Channel east of Danco Island. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Sir Charles Wheatstone , English scientist...

. Draining north-northeastwards to enter the head of Beaupré Cove
Beaupre Cove
Beaupré Cove is a cove wide lying between Jones Point and O'Neal Point, northwest of Piccard Cove in Wilhelmina Bay, along the west coast of Graham Land...

 east of Stolze Peak
Stolze Peak
Stolze Peak is a peak on Arctowski Peninsula near the head of Beaupre Cove, on the west coast of Graham Land. Mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57...

.

The glacier is named after the 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...

n physicist
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

 Georgi Nadjakov
Georgi Nadjakov
Georgi Nadjakov is a famous Bulgarian physicist. He became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

 (1897–1981) who discovered the photoelectret state essential to modern photocopying.

Location

Nadjakov Glacier is located at 64°45′10"S 62°23′20"W. British mapping in 1980.

Maps

  • British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3217. DOS 610 - W 64 62. Tolworth, UK, 1980.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.
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