Nordenskjöld ice tongue
| Nordenskjöld ice tongue | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 11 ′ S , 162 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| drainage | McMurdo Sound | |
 Map of the Scott coast from 1962 with the Nordenskjöld ice tongue in the northern quarter of the western edge of the map |
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The Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue is a wide glacier tongue on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows into the McMurdo Sound as an extension of the Mawson Glacier .
The ice tongue was discovered in January 1902 as part of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , who named it after the Swedish polar explorer Otto Nordenskjöld , who was also the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903) to explore the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula headed.
Web links
- Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue on geographic.org (English)
- Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 227 (English)