Sölch glacier

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Sölch glacier
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates 67 ° 4 ′  S , 66 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 67 ° 4 ′  S , 66 ° 21 ′  W
Soelch Glacier (Antarctic Peninsula)
Sölch glacier
drainage Salmon Cove

The Sölch Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows west to Salmon Cove on the east bank of Lallemand Fjord .

The first aerial photographs were taken between 1956 and 1957 during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Austrian geographer, geologist and glaciologist Johann Sölch (1883-1951).

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