Drygalski glacier
| Drygalski glacier | ||
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| location | Graham Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Herbert Plateau | |
| length | 30 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 43 ′ S , 61 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Solari Bay | |
The Drygalski Glacier is a wide, around 30 km long glacier in Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the Herbert Plateau in a south-easterly direction to the Nordenskjöld coast , where it flows into Solari Bay between the Richard Knoll in the north and the Sentinel Nunatak in the south .
It was discovered in 1902 during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903) under the direction of the Swedish polar explorer Otto Nordenskjöld . It is named after the German polar explorer Erich von Drygalski (1865–1949), who at the same time led the Gauß expedition (1901–1903) to Kaiser Wilhelm II Land .
Web links
- Drygalski Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Drygalski Glacier on geographic.org (English)