Solis glacier
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Map of Greenwich Island with the Solis Glacier (bottom right) |
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location | Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands | |
Mountains | Breznik Heights | |
Coordinates | 62 ° 31 ′ S , 59 ° 43 ′ W | |
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drainage | Yankee Harbor |
The Solis Glacier ( Spanish Glaciar Solís ) is a glacier on Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from Breznik Heights in a westerly direction to Yankee Harbor .
Participants of the 7th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1952–1953), who had carried out hydrographic surveys of Yankee Harbor, named it after a member of the expedition.
Web links
- Solis Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Solis Glacier on geographic.org (English)