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Soza Icefalls () is a line of icefalls nearly high at the southern margin of
Chapman Snowfield Chapman Snowfield () is a large snowfield lying west of the central ridge in the Churchill Mountains, bounded to the north by Elder Peak and the massif surmounted by Mount Wharton, to the south by Soza Icefalls, Black Icefalls and the head of St ...
in the
Churchill Mountains The Churchill Mountains are a mountain range group of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica. They border on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier. Seve ...
. The icefalls extend southwest for from Mount Massam, ending near the head of Starshot Glacier. They were named after Ezekiel R. Soza, a
U.S. Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and ...
topographic engineer with the Topo North - Topo South survey expedition in these mountains, 1961–62.


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