Riiser Larsen Ice Shelf
Coordinates: 72 ° 40 ′ S , 16 ° 0 ′ W
The Riiser Larsen Ice Shelf is a 400-kilometer-long ice shelf that lies on the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . The ice shelf stretches from Cape Norvegia to Lyddan Island in the north and to the Stancomb-Wills Glacier in the south. It separates the Weddell Sea to the west from the King Haakon VII Sea to the east.
Parts of the tablet were sighted by William Speirs Bruce in 1904, Ernest Shackleton in 1915, and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen in 1930. Most of it was photographed and mapped from the air by the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition from 1951 to 1952 . Additional mapping of the southern and inland margins was provided by aerial photographs taken during Operation Deep Freeze . The table was named by Norway after Captain Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, who explored the area in 1930.