Lipen Glacier is a 5 km long and 3.5 km wide glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

 draining the east slopes of the Trojan Range

Trojan Range

The Trojan Range is a mountain range rising to , extending northward from Mount Francais along the east side of Iliad Glacier, Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory...

 on Anvers Island

Anvers Island

Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island long, which is the largest feature in the Palmer Archipelago, lying southwest of Brabant Island at the southwestern end of the group. Anvers Island is located at...

 in the Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago

Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula....

, Antarctica. Situated east of Iliad Glacier

Iliad Glacier

Iliad Glacier is a glacier flowing northeast from the central highlands of Anvers Island between the Achaean and Trojan Ranges into Lapeyrere Bay, in the Palmer Archipelago. Surveyed in 1955 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names...

 and north of Rhesus Glacier

Rhesus Glacier

Rhesus Glacier is a 7 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier draining the east slopes of the Trojan Range on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica southeast of Paris Peak. Situated east of Iliad Glacier, south of Lipen Glacier and north of Thamyris Glacier...

. Flowing northeastwards into the head of Patagonia Bay

Patagonia Bay

Patagonia Bay is a bay between Gourdon Peninsula and Thompson Peninsula on the northeast coast of Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago. Named "Bahia Patagonia" by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition, 1947, after the expedition ship Patagonia....

 east of Gourdon Peninsula

Gourdon Peninsula

Gourdon Peninsula is a snow-covered peninsula 6 nautical miles long, forming the southeast side of Lapeyrere Bay on the northeast coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago...

 and west of Thompson Peninsula

Thompson Peninsula

Thompson Peninsula is a peninsula 3 nautical miles long forming the north side of the entrance to Fournier Bay, on Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for John W...

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The glacier is named after the settlement of Lipen in northwestern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Location

Lipen Glacier is located at 64°29′15"S 63°16′30"W. British mapping in 1980.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3217. DOS 610 - W 64 62. Tolworth, UK, 1980.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.