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 Starsh ...

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. Se ...

. The icefalls extend southwest for from

Mount Massam Mount Massam () is a broad ice-covered mountain about west of Mount Lindley, in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. It was named by the Holyoake, Cobham, and Queen Elizabeth Ranges Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expeditio ...

, ending near the head of

Starshot Glacier Starshot Glacier () is a glacier 50 nautical miles (90 km) long, flowing from the polar plateau eastward through the Churchill Mountains, then north along the west side of Surveyors Range, entering the Ross Ice Shelf south of Cape Parr. So n ...

. 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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