Nesla Glacier is the 6.2 km long and 2 km wide glacier on Magnier Peninsula

Magnier Peninsula

Magnier Peninsula is the mostly ice-covered peninsula projecting 18 km in northwest direction from Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is 17 km wide between Leroux Bay to the northeast and Bigo Bay to the southwest...

, Graham Coast

Graham Coast

Graham Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctic Peninsula, extending 172 km between Cape Bellue to the southwest and Cape Renard to the northeast....

 on the west side of 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 southwest of Muldava Glacier

Muldava Glacier

Muldava Glacier is the 4.4 km long and 3.2 km wide glacier on Magnier Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated west of Luke Glacier and northeast of Nesla Glacier...

 and north of Kolosh Glacier

Kolosh Glacier

Kolosh Glacier is the 6.7 km long and 3.6 km wide glacier on Magnier Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated south of Nesla Glacier...

. It drains the west slopes of Lisiya Ridge

Lisiya Ridge

Lisiya Ridge is the ice-covered ridge at the base of Magnier Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, extending 16 km in northeast-southwest direction between the heads of Leroux Bay and Bigo Bay, and 11 km wide. Bounded by Comrie Glacier to the south and a...

 west of Mount Perchot

Mount Perchot

Mount Perchot is a mountain, 2,040 m, surmounted by Lisiya Ridge, a prominent ridge extending in a general north-south direction, standing 4 nautical miles southeast of Magnier Peaks on Magnier Peninsula, Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, and flows westwards into Bigo Bay

Bigo Bay

Bigo Bay is a bay long and wide, indenting the west coast of Graham Land between Cape Garcia and the peninsula surmounted by Magnier Peaks. The French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, first sighted this bay but charted it as the southern part of Leroux Bay...

 next north of the terminus

Glacier terminus

A glacier terminus, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating...

 of Kolosh Glacier.

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

Location

Nesla Glacier is centred at 65°43′25"S 64°16′30"W. British mapping in 1971.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1971.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.