Solberg Inlet

Solberg Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet 5 to 10 nautical miles (18 km) wide, which recedes west 14 nautical miles (26 km) between

Rock Pile Peaks The Rock Pile Peaks () are a cluster of peaks rising to between Wilson Pass and Rock Pile Point on Bermel Peninsula, Bowman Coast, Graham Land in Antarctica. The peaks were photographed from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and Lincoln ...

and

Joerg Peninsula Joerg Peninsula () is a rugged, mountainous peninsula, long in a northeast–southwest direction and from wide, lying between Trail Inlet and Solberg Inlet on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Its tip is indented by Hondius Inlet. Th ...

, on the east coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...

. Discovered by members of the

United States Antarctic Service The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...

(USAS) in 1940, it was resighted in 1947 by the

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...

(RARE) under Ronne, who named it for

Rear Admiral Rear admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, equivalent to a major general and air vice marshal and above that of a commodore and captain, but below that of a vice admiral. It is regarded as a two star "admiral" rank. It is often regarde ...

Thorvald A. Solberg Rear Admiral Thorvald A. Solberg (17 February 1894 – 16 May 1964) was a senior officer in the United States Navy, and the Chief of the Office of Naval Research from 1948 to 1951. Biography Thorvald A. Solberg was born in Mason, Wisconsin, on 1 ...

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, Chief of Naval Research, who was of assistance to the expedition. Inlets of Graham Land Bowman Coast {{BowmanCoast-geo-stub