Somigliana glacier
| Somigliana glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 3 ′ S , 67 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Langmuir Cove | |
The Somigliana Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the northern part of the Arrowsmith Peninsula, it flows north to Langmuir Cove .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs from the years 1956 to 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on September 23, 1960 after the Italian mathematician and physicist Carlo Somigliana (1859–1955), who did 1921 later developed a false theory about glacial flow.
Web links
- Somigliana Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Somigliana Glacier on geographic.org (English)