Narechen Glacier is the 9 km long and 11 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 western slopes of Lassus Mountains

Lassus Mountains

Lassus Mountains are mountains, 15 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide, rising to 2,100 m and extending south from Palestrina Glacier in the northwest part of Alexander Island. First seen in 1821 by the Russian expedition under Bellingshausen...

 on Alexander Island

Alexander Island

Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

 in Antarctica. Flowing westwards to enter Lazarev Bay

Lazarev Bay

Lazarev Bay is a rectangular bay, 15 nautical miles long and 13 nautical miles wide, between Alexander Island and Rothschild Island and bounded on the south by ice shelf joining the two islands. The north coast of Alexander Island was first seen from a great distance by the Russian expedition of...

 in Bellingshausen Sea

Bellingshausen Sea

The Bellingshausen Sea is an area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, west of Alexander Island, east of Cape Flying Fish on Thurston Island, and south of Peter I Island . In the south are, from west to east, Eights Coast, Bryan Coast and English Coast of West Antarctica...

 south of the southwestern ridge of Mount Wilbye

Mount Wilbye

Mount Wilbye is the highest peak of Lassus Mountains in the north part of Alexander Island. Mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947–48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960...

 and north of Faulkner Nunatak

Faulkner Nunatak

Faulkner Nunatak is a distinctive nunatak just west of Beagle Peak, Lassus Mountains, in northwest Alexander Island. The feature appears in U.S. Navy aerial photographs obtained in 1966. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Harold T. Faulkner, U.S. Navy, Leading Chief of Squadron...

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The glacier is named after the settlement and spa resort of Narechen

Narechen

Narechen is a village in the Plovdiv Province, central Bulgaria. it has 924 inhabitants. It is set amid pine forest on the Assenitsa river in the Rhodopean mountain. The village is notable for its hypothermal mineral springs which have transformed it into an important spa resort.Narechen Glacier...

 in southern 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

Narechen Glacier is located at 69°34′30"S 71°40′20"W. British mapping in 1963.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3127. DOS 610 - W 69 70. Tolworth, UK, 1971.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.