Solun glacier
| Solun glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Protector Heights | |
| length | 9.3 km | |
| width | Max. 4 km | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 38 '50 " S , 66 ° 3' 0" W | |
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| drainage | Darbel Bay | |
The Solun Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Солун Lednik Solun , in the United Kingdom Philippa Glacier ) is a 9.3 km long and 4 km wide glacier on Pernik Peninsula on Loubet Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows east of the Škorpil Glacier and northwest of the McCance Glacier from the northern slopes of Protector Heights in a northerly direction to Darbel Bay .
British scientists mapped it in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the high school in Solun (Solun = Thessaloniki ), which is now located in Blagoewgrad , Bulgaria . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Philippa Scott (1919-2010), the wife of the British conservationist Peter Markham Scott and daughter-in-law of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Solun Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)