Škorpil Glacier is the 12 km long and 10 km wide glacier on Pernik Peninsula

Pernik Peninsula

Pernik Peninsula is the ice-covered peninsula projecting 40 km in northwest direction from Loubet Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula...

, Loubet Coast on the west side of 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 northeast of Stefan Ice Piedmont

Stefan Ice Piedmont

Stefan Ice Piedmont is a small ice piedmont at the northwest extremity of Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast in Graham Land, overlying the coast between Cape Rey and Holdfast Point. Mapped from air photos taken by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition...

 and W of Solun Glacier

Solun Glacier

Solun Glacier is the 9.3 km long and 4 km wide glacier on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated east of Škorpil Glacier and northwest of McCance Glacier...

. It drains the north slopes of Protector Heights

Protector Heights

Protector Heights are mountainous coastal heights on Pernik Peninsula, Antarctica, which are separated from the Graham Land plateau by a narrow col, dominating the area between Wilkinson Glacier and southern Darbel Bay. Mapped from air photos taken by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial...

, and flows northwards into Darbel Bay

Darbel Bay

Darbel Bay is a bay 25 nautical miles wide, indenting the west coast of Graham Land between Capes Bellue and Rey. Discovered and roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1908–10, who gave it the name "Baie Marin Darbel." The bay was further charted in 1931 by DI...

 east of Madell Point

Madell Point

Madell Point is a point 2 nautical miles northeast of Cape Rey on the northwest coast of Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast in Graham Land. Mapped from air photos taken by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition . Named for James S...

.

The glacier is named after the Czech Bulgarian

Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...

 archeologist Karel Škorpil

Karel Škorpil

Karel Václav Škorpil was a Czech-Bulgarian archaeologist and museum worker credited along with his brother Hermann with the establishment of those two disciplines in Bulgaria....

 (1859–1944).

Location

Škorpil Glacier is centred at 66°37′50"S 66°16′00"W. British mapping in 1976.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 66. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.