Pirin Glacier is the 5.7 km long and 6 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...

 situated next east of Chavdar Peninsula

Chavdar Peninsula

Chavdar Peninsula is a 10-km wide peninsula projecting 13 km in northwest direction from Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Bounded by Curtiss Bay to the northeast, Hughes Bay to the southwest and Gerlache Strait to the northwest...

 on Davis Coast

Davis Coast

Davis Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of...

 on the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. Situated west of Wright Ice Piedmont

Wright Ice Piedmont

Wright Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont extending westward from Lanchester Bay along the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955-57 and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

, north of Gregory Glacier

Gregory Glacier

Gregory Glacier is a glacier flowing into Cierva Cove north of Breguet Glacier, on the west coast of Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for H. Franklin Gregory, American pioneer in the development and...

 and east of Samodiva Glacier

Samodiva Glacier

Samodiva Glacier is the 3.7 km long and 1.8 km wide glacier in the east part of Chavdar Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated east of Tumba Ice Cap and west of Pirin Glacier...

. Draining north-northwestwards from Boulton Peak

Boulton Peak

Boulton Peak is a peak at the southeast side of Curtiss Bay, about south of Cape Andreas, Graham Land in Antarctica. It surmounts Pirin Glacier to the north and Gregory Glacier to the south. It was mapped from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd , and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names...

 to enter Curtiss Bay

Curtiss Bay

Curtiss Bay is a bay about 4 nautical miles wide, indenting the west coast of Graham Land just north of Chavdar Peninsula, and entered between Cape Sterneck and Cape Andreas on Davis Coast. The name Bahia Inutil appearing on a 1957 Argentine chart is considered misleading; the bay has been...

 east of Seaplane Point

Seaplane Point

Seaplane Point is a point at the south side of Curtiss Bay, on the northeast coast of Chavdar Peninsula on Davis Coast, Graham Land. Mapped from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys...

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The glacier is named after Pirin Mountain

Pirin

The Pirin Mountains are a mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria, with Vihren the highest peak, situated at . The range extends about 40 km northwest-southeast, and about 25 km wide. Most of the range is protected in the Pirin National Park...

 in southwestern 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

Pirin Glacier is located at 64°05′30"S 60°43′00"W. British mapping in 1978.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3198. DOS 610 - W 64 60. Tolworth, UK, 1978.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.