Sjögren Glacier

The Sjögren Glacier is in Graham Land towards the southwest of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It flows southeast from the Detroit Plateau to enter Prince Gustav Channel opposite Röhss Bay on James Ross Island. It is north of Mount Tucker and Longing Peninsula, and northeast of Larsen Inlet. Mount Hornsby looks over its western side. • Copernix satellite image ==Glaciology==

The Prince Gustaf Channel was filled by an ice shelf until the late 1980s. Its main sources were the Sjögren Glacier and the Röhss Glacier, which flows from James Ross Island. The ice shelf began to gradually retreat in the late 1980s, and collapsed in January 1995. In the period before the collapse the ice shelf contained many rifts, crevasses and melt ponds. After the collapse the Röhss Glacier rapidly retreated by about between January 2001 and March 2009, and lost more than 70% of its area. Between 1996 and 2014 the glaciers flowing into Sjögren Inlet retreated by about . The rate of flow accelerated until 2007 in the Sjögren Glacier, and until 2004 in the Boydell Glacier. As of 2014 the rate of flow was still about twice the rate in 1996. ==Discovery and name==

Sjögren Glacier was discovered in 1903 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE) under Otto Nordenskjöld. He named it Hj. Sjögren Fiord after a patron of the expedition. The true nature of the feature was determined by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1945. ==Western features==

Seydol Crag A narrow, rocky ridge extending and rising to high in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau. Situated west-southwest of Lobosh Peak, northwest of Mureno Peak and north-northeast of Mount Hornsby. Surmounting the upper course of Sjögren Glacier to the west and south. Named after the settlement of Seydol in Northeastern Bulgaria. Survakari Nunatak A rocky hill rising to high in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau. Situated in upper Sjögren Glacier, south-southeast of Seydol Crag and northeast of Mount Hornsby. Named after the Bulgarian New Year's folkloric ritual of Survakari Mount Hornsby . A prominent snow-capped mountain on the south side of the middle reaches of Sjögren Glacier. Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960–61). Named by UK-APC after Richard Hornsby and Sons of Grantham, who designed and constructed several highly successful chain-track vehicles for the British War Office, the first "caterpillar tractors,|1904-10. Draka Nunatak . A lens-shaped rocky ridge extending and wide, with twin heights rising to on the southwest coast of Sjögren Inlet. Situated south-southwest of Vetrovala Peak and southeast of Mount Hornsby. Named after the settlements of Draka and Drakata in Southeastern and Southwestern Bulgaria respectively. ==Eastern features==

Boydell Glacier . A glacier about long, flowing southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, and merging on the south side with Sjögren Glacier. Mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from surveys (1960–61). Named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for James Boydell, English inventor of a steam traction engine, the first practical track-laying vehicle (British Patents of 1846 and 1854). Lobosh Peak An ice-covered peak rising to in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau. Situated east of the upper course of Boydell Glacier, west by south of Petkov Nunatak, northwest of the summit of Kopito Ridge, north-northeast of Mureno Peak. Precipitous, mostly ice-free west slopes. Surmounting Boydell Glacier to the west and south. Named after the settlement of Lobosh in Western Bulgaria. Mureno Peak . A rocky, mostly ice-free peak rising to high in the north part of Aldomir Ridge. Situated between Sjögren and Boydell Glaciers, south-southwest of Lobosh Peak, northwest of Mount Wild, north-northwest of Vetrovala Peak, north of Draka Nunatak, northeast of Mount Hornsby and southeast of Seydol Crag. British mapping in 1983. Named after the settlement of Mureno in Western Bulgaria. Aldomir Ridge . A mostly ice-free ridge on southern Trinity Peninsula bounded by Sjögren Glacier to the west and Boydell Glacier to the east. Extending between Detroit Plateau to the north-northwest and Sjögren Inlet to the south-southeast, wide and rising to high at its north extremity. Named after the settlement of Aldomirovtsi in Western Bulgaria. Mount Wild . Sharply defined rock ridge with several summits, the highest high, standing at the north side of the mouth of Sjogren Glacier. First charted by the FIDS in 1945 and named for Frank Wild. ==Central features==

Mount Daynes . Also known as Vetrovala Peak (Bulgarian). Locally prominent peak rising to high at the south-eastern end of the promontory between Boydell and Sjögren glaciers. Named for Roger Daynes (b.1942), meteorologist and BC at Halley 1971–73. Co-founder, owner and Director of Snowsled Ltd 2000–16, manufacturers of Nansen sledges and pyramid tents for BAS since 1988 and designers and suppliers of polar equipment to many national polar research programmes and expeditions. Royak Point . A rocky point on the northwest coast of Sjögren Inlet in southern Trinity Peninsula formed by the southeast extremity of Aldomir Ridge. Situated southeast of Vetrovala Peak, west of the headland formed by Mount Wild, and northwest of the south side of the entrance to Sjögren Inlet. Formed as a result of the retreat of Sjögren Glacier and Boydell Glacier in the first decade of 21st century. Antarctic Digital Database mapping 2012. Named after the settlement of Royak in Northeastern Bulgaria. Sjögren Inlet An inlet exposed following the retreat of Sjögren Glacier, approximately long running east-southeast from the base of Sjögren Glacier, into Prince Gustav Channel, north of Longing Peninsula. Named by UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) (2006) in association with Sjögren Glacier. Sjögren Glacier Tongue . A tongue of ice between {{coord|wide, extending {{coord|from Sjögren Glacier across Prince Gustav Channel toward Persson Island. It was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–61). The glacier tongue was an extension of the flow of Sjögren Glacier from which it took its name. It has disappeared since at least 1994, with its area now covered by the Prince Gustav Channel. ==Southern features==

Hazarbasanov Ridge . A mostly ice-free ridge long, wide and rising to high on the southwest side of Sjögren Glacier. Situated southeast of Mount Hornsby, south of Survakari Nunatak, west-southwest of Vetrovala Peak. Named after Dobri Hazarbasanov (b. 1960), physician at St. Kliment Ohridski Base during the 1995/96 and subsequent seasons. Shortcut Col . A wide col rising to over immediately south of Mount Hornsby. Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960–61). So named by UK-APC because this col provides a useful shortcut, avoiding the long detour through Longing Gap. Downham Peak . A rock pyramid at the south side of the mouth of Sjögren Glacier. Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960–61). Named by UK-APC for Noel Y. Downham, FIDS meteorological assistant at Hope Bay, who assisted in the triangulation of this area in 1961. ==References==