Risting glacier
| Risting glacier | ||
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 Mouth of the Risting Glacier into the Drygalski Fjord |
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| location | South Georgia | |
| length | 7 km | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 44 ′ 58 ″ S , 36 ° 8 ′ 51 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Drygalski Fjord | |
The Risting Glacier is a 7 km long glacier on South Georgia . It flows north of the Jenkins Glacier in a south-easterly direction and flows into the head end of the Drygalski Fjord .
The South Georgia Survey mapped it as part of its surveying campaign, which lasted from 1951 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1958 after the Norwegian historian Sigurd Risting (1870-1935), who dealt with the history of whaling and had been a member of the Norwegian whaling society from 1918 until his death. By Wilhelm Filchner during the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911-1912) made designation as Drygalskigletscher by Erich von Drygalski sat down also because of the not made geographic separation from neighboring Jenkins Glacier not.
Web links
- Risting Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Risting Glacier on geographic.org (English)