Lipen Glacier
| Lipen Glacier | ||
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| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Trojan Range | |
| length | 5 km | |
| width | Max. 3.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 29 ′ 15 ″ S , 63 ° 16 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Patagonia Bay | |
The Lipen Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Липен lednik Lipen ) is a 5 km long and 3.5 km wide glacier on the Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . From the eastern slopes of the Trojan Range it flows northeast of Paris Peak in a northeast direction to the head end of Patagonia Bay , which it reaches west of the Thompson Peninsula .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the village of Lipen in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Lipen Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)