Pipkov Glacier ( bg, Пипков ледник, Pipkov lednik, ) is the 11 km long in east-northeast to west-southwest direction and 3.2 km wide glacier on the west side of

Havre Mountains The Havre Mountains () are a large group of mountains forming the northwestern extremity of Alexander Island, Antarctica, extending in an east–west direction between Cape Vostok and the Russian Gap. They were first seen in 1821 by a Russian ex ...

in northern

Alexander Island Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarc ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

. The glacier is situated south and southwest of Lennon Glacier, and north of

Oselna Glacier Oselna Glacier ( bg, ледник Оселна, lednik Oselna, ) is the 4 km long in east-west direction and 1 km wide glacier on the west side of Havre Mountains in northern Alexander Island, Antarctica. The glacier is situated south o ...

. It flows westwards between

Kutev Peak Kutev Peak ( bg, Кутев връх, Kutev vrah, ) is the mostly ice-covered peak rising to 1160 mNicolai Peak on the north, and Simon Peak on the south, and enters

Lazarev Bay Lazarev Bay is a rectangular bay, long and wide, which separates Alexander Island from Rothschild Island and is bounded on the south side by the Wilkins Ice Shelf, which joins the east portion of Rothschild Island and the west portion of Alexan ...

southeast of Buneva Point and north of

Kamhi Point Kamhi Point ( bg, нос Камхи, ‘Nos Kamhi’ \'nos kam-'hi\) is the sharp rocky point on the northwest coast of Alexander Island in Antarctica projecting 450 m westwards into Lazarev Bay south of the terminus of Oselna Glacier. Th ...

. The feature is named after the Bulgarian composers

Panayot Pipkov Panayot Hristov Pipkov ( bg, Панайот Христов Пипков) (21 November 1871 – 25 August 1942) was a Bulgarian composer. He studied music in Milan, Italy, and taught in Lovech and Sofia. He was the father of composer Lyubomir Pipk ...

(1871-1942) and

Lyubomir Pipkov Lyubomir Panaïotov Pipkov ( bg, Любомир Панайотов Пипков) (September 6, 1904 – May 9, 1974) was a Bulgarian composer, pianist, and music educator. He is considered among the founders of Bulgaria's modern professional musi ...

(1904-1974).

Location

Pipkov Glacier is centered at . British mapping in 1971 and 1991.

Maps

* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 – W 69 70. Tolworth, UK, 1971 * British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Sheet SR19-20/5. APC UK, 1991
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Pipkov Glacier.
SCAR

Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...

External links

Pipkov Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Glaciers of Alexander Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{AlexanderIsland-glacier-stub