Dålk glacier
| Dålk glacier | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 26 ′ S , 76 ° 27 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Prydz Bay , Southern Ocean | |
The Dålk Glacier is a 13 km long glacier on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It flows into the southeastern part of Prydz Bay , which it reaches between the Larsemann Hills and the Steinnes headland .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The American cartographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) named him in 1952 after evaluating the aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947). The offshore island Dålkøy is named after it .
Web links
- Dalk Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dålk Glacier on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the ASMA-6 "Larsemann Hills" Special Administrative Region (PDF) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)