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Somigliana Glacier
Somigliana
Glacier
is a
glacier
flowing
north
to
Langmuir Cove
on
the north
part of
Arrowsmith Peninsula
in
Graham Land
. Mapped by
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
from
surveys
and air
photos
, 1956–59. Named by
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
for
Carlo Somigliana
,
Italian mathematician
and
physicist
who originated a viscous
theory of
glacier
flow
, in
1921
.