Mapple Glacier [SEP] continent
Mapple Glacier
Mapple Glacier () is a narrow glacier long, flowing eastward between Arkovna Ridge and Stevrek Ridge in the Aristotle Mountains of Antarctica to enter Sexaginta Prista Bay on the east side of Graham Land. It lies north of Melville Glacier and is separated from it by a line of small peaks. The glacier was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1961, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Father Mapple, the whalemen's Nantucket priest in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick"
Elovdol Glacier
Elovdol Glacier (, ‘Lednik Elovdol’ \'led-nik 'e-lov-dol\) is the 8 km long and 3 km wide glacier in Arkovna Ridge, Aristotle Mountains on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land. It flows 6 km eastwards, then turns southeast to join Mapple Glacier. The feature is named after the settlements of Elovdol in Western Bulgaria.
Location.
Elovdol Glacier is located at . British mapping in 1976.
Maps.
- British Antarctic Territory. Scale