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Sikera Valley (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Sikera Valley (The name as it would appear on a map)
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This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The 17 km long and 5.7 km wide ice-filled valley between Doyran Heights and Flowers Hills on the E side of Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains. A steep 4-km side glacier draining NE from Mount Havener in Doyran Heights empties into the upper part of the valley next S of Kostinbrod Pass. The valley ice flows southeastwards towards Rutford Ice Stream. US mapping in 1988. Named after the medieval fortress of Sikera in Southeastern Bulgaria.
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