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.

Solis Glacier
Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands
Map showing the location of Solis Glacier
Map showing the location of Solis Glacier
Location of Solis Glacier in Antarctica
Map showing the location of Solis Glacier
Map showing the location of Solis Glacier
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 (on the right) from Camp Academia, with Huron Glacier and McFarlane Strait in the foreground.

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

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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

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Maps

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  • 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

References

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Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.