King River
Coordinates: 54 ° 9 ′ S , 36 ° 48 ′ W
The König River is a glacial stream on South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It flows north from Lake König to Fortuna Bay . The lake in turn is fed by the melt water from the König glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2013 based on the name of the glacier of the same name. Its namesake is 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 River . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)