Solis Glacier

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
Location of Solis Glacier in Antarctica Solis Glacier (Antarctica)
Location	Greenwich Island South Shetland Islands
Coordinates	62°31′30″S 59°43′24″W
Length	1.5 nmi (3 km; 2 mi)
Width	1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Yankee Harbour
Status	unknown

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

The glacier is centred at 62°31′30″S 59°43′24″W (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

Maps

• 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

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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