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Russell East Glacier

Russell East Glacier (63°44′S 58°20′W / 63.733°S 58.333°W / -63.733; -58.333 (Russell East Glacier)) is a glacier, 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) long and 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) wide, which lies at the north end of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula eastward into Prince Gustav Channel on the south side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. This glacier together with Russell West Glacier, which flows westward into Bone Bay on the north side of Trinity Peninsula, form a through glacier across the north part of Antarctic Peninsula.

Russell East Glacier is in Graham Land towards the west of the south coast of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It flows in an east-southeast direction into the Prince Gustav Channel, which it enters to the north of Long Island. It is southwest of the Cugnot Ice Piedmont, south of Louis Philippe Plateau and northeast of Victory Glacier. At its head it saddles with Russell West Glacier, which flows west to Bone Bay. Nearby features include Mount Canicula, Mount Daimler and Asimuth Hill to the southwest, and Benz Pass and Panhard Nunatak to the northeast.

Russell East Glacier was first surveyed in 1946 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for V.I. Russell, surveyor and leader of the FIDS base at Hope Bay in 1946.

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Features to the southwest of the glacier include:

63°43′20″S 58°32′20″W / 63.72222°S 58.53889°W / -63.72222; -58.53889. A flat saddle of elevation 813 metres (2,667 ft) high extending 1.35 kilometres (0.84 mi), situated between Russell West Glacier to the northwest and a tributary glacier to Russell East Glacier to the southeast. Linking Irakli Peak and Trakiya Heights to the southwest, and Mount Canicula to the northeast. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlement of Srem in Southeastern Bulgaria.

63°43′S 58°30′W / 63.717°S 58.500°W / -63.717; -58.500. A mountain formed of two rock peaks, 890 and 825 metres (2,920 and 2,707 ft) high. It stands 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) east of Sirius Knoll on the divide separating Russell East Glacier and Russell West Glacier. Charted in 1946 by FIDS, and named by them because of the association with Sirius Knoll. Canicula is a synonym of Sirius, the dog star.

63°45′07″S 58°31′10″W / 63.75194°S 58.51944°W / -63.75194; -58.51944. Heights that rise to 1,336 metres (4,383 ft) high on Trinity Peninsula. They are bounded by Russell West Glacier to the north, Russell East Glacier to the northeast, Victory Glacier to the southwest and Zlidol Gate to the northwest. Surmounting Prince Gustav Channel, Weddell Sea to the southeast. Extending 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) in northwest–southeast direction and 5.9 kilometres (3.7 mi) in a northeast–southwest direction. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the historical region of Trakiya (Thrace).

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