Fortuna glacier
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 8 ′ S , 36 ° 54 ′ W | |
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| drainage | South Atlantic and Fortuna Bay | |
The Fortuna Glacier is a glacier on South Georgia . It flows in a northeasterly direction to the sea, which it reaches immediately west of Cape Best . A branch branches off in an easterly direction and ends just before the west bank of Fortuna Bay .
The namesake of the name, which was made around 1912, is probably the whaling ship Fortuna , with which the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur and Antarctic researcher Carl Anton Larsen sailed in the waters around South Georgia between 1904 and 1905.
Web links
Commons : Fortuna Glacier - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Fortuna Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fortuna Glacier on geographic.org (English)