Solis Glacier

Solis Glacier
Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands
Location of Solis Glacier in Antarctica
Solis Glacier (Antarctica)
LocationGreenwich Island
South Shetland Islands
Coordinates62°31′30″S 59°43′24″W / 62.52500°S 59.72333°W / -62.52500; -59.72333
Length1.5 nmi (3 km; 2 mi)
Width1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi)
Thicknessunknown
TerminusYankee Harbour
Statusunknown

Solis Glacier is a glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 2.8 km in southeast-northwest direction and 1.8 km in southwest-northeast direction and draining the north slopes of Breznik Heights to flow northwestwards into Yankee Harbour.

The feature was named by the 1952-53 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after a member of the party that made a hydrographic survey of Yankee Harbour.

Location

The glacier is centred at 62°31′30″S 59°43′24″W / 62.52500°S 59.72333°W / -62.52500; -59.72333 (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

See also

Maps

  • L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
  • L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

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