Threshing ice front notch
| Threshing ice front notch thresher inlet |
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Riiser Larsen Ice Shelf | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 53 ′ S , 19 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| width | 3 km | |
| length | 25 km | |
The Threschereisfrontkerbe (unofficially - translated into English and adapted to the German spelling - Drescher-Inlet ) is a cut of the Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf (an ice port ) on the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . The incision is 25 kilometers long and up to 3 kilometers wide and was named after Eberhard Drescher (1944–1983), marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute . The mobile Drescher station is set up there from time to time .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Drescher Eiscamp - AWI on the website of the Alfred Wegener Institute, accessed on January 6, 2018
- ↑ Standing Committee for Geographical Names : Directory of German-language geographical names of the Antarctic. Version 2.14, June 13, 2014 (Introduction) (source directory) , accessed on January 6, 2018
- ^ Threshing ice front notch in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed January 6, 2018