Gorichane Glacier | |
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Location of Gorichane in Antarctica | |
Location | Palmer Archipelago |
Coordinates | 64°12′00″S 62°25′40″W / 64.20000°S 62.42778°W |
Length | 2 nmi (4 km; 2 mi) |
Width | 1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi) |
Thickness | unknown |
Terminus | Lanusse Bay |
Status | unknown |
Gorichane Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Горичане, romanized: lednik Gorichane, IPA: [ˈlɛdniɡ ɡoˈrit͡ʃɐnɛ]) is the 4.5 km long and 1.7 km wide glacier on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, situated east-southeast of Palilula Glacier, southwest of the head of Paré Glacier, west-northwest of the head of Laënnec Glacier, northwest of the head of Malpighi Glacier and north of Djerassi Glacier. It drains the west slopes of central Stribog Mountains and flows southwestwards into Lanusse Bay east of Baykal Point.
The glacier is named after the settlement of Gorichane in Northeastern Bulgaria.