Lazarev Ice Shelf
Coordinates: 69 ° 37 ′ S , 14 ° 45 ′ E
The Lasarew Ice Shelf is an approximately 80 km long ice shelf off the Princess Astrid coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It lies between Leningradskiy Island and Werbljud Island .
The first aerial photographs and maps were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of Alfred Ritscher . Members of a Soviet Antarctic expedition undertook further explorations in 1959. It was named after the Russian admiral Michail Lasarew (1788-1851), participant of the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819-1821) under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen .
Web links
- Lazarev Ice Shelf in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- Lazarev Ice Shelf on geographic.org