SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.

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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Solis Glacier (GBR) 62° 31' 14.9" S 59° 43' 24.9" W Glacier
Name ID: 135366 Place ID: 13634

Glacier flowing W into Yankee Harbour, Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands, was so called by CAE, 1952-53, after a member of the party which made a hydrographic survey of the harbour.

Solis Glacier (USA) 62° 31' 00.0" S 59° 46' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 136351 Place ID: 13634

Glacier flowing W into Yankee Harbor, Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Named by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1952-53, after a member of the party that made a hydrographic survey of Yankee Harbor.

Solís, Glaciar (CHL) 62° 32' 00.0" S 59° 47' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 106297 Place ID: 13634

El nombre figura por primera vez en una carta chilena de 1953, denominado probablemente por la VII Expedición Antártica Chilena de los años 1952-1953, por algún integrante de la comisión que efectuó trabajos hidrográficos en bahía Yankee. Glaciar que ocupa la costa N y E de bahía Yankee en isla Greenwich de las Shetland del Sur.

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