King Glacier
| King Glacier | ||
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| location | South Georgia | |
| length | 5 km | |
| width | Max. 2.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 11 '54 " S , 36 ° 47' 45" W | |
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| drainage | Lake König → König River → Fortuna Bay → South Atlantic | |
The König Glacier is a 5 km long and up to 2.5 km wide glacier on South Georgia . It flows from the northern flank of the Neumayer Glacier in a northerly direction to the head end of Fortuna Bay .
The first survey was carried out by participants in a German expedition (1928–1929) under the direction of Ludwig Kohl-Larsen . This named him after the Austrian mountaineer Felix König (1880-1945), participant in the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911-1912) under the direction of Wilhelm Filchner .
Web links
- King Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- König Glacier on geographic.org (English)