Risting Glacier

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Risting Glacier flows into Drygalski Ford

Risting Glacier is a glacier on South Georgia, 4.5 nautical miles long, lying north of Jenkins Glacier and flowing south-east into the head of Drygalski Fjord in the south part of the island

The glacier was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey under Duncan Carse in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Sigurd Risting (1870-1935), Norwegian whaling historian; secretary of Norsk Hvalfangerforening, 1918-35, and editor of Norsk Hvalfangst-Tidende, 1922-35.

The German Antarctic Expedition of 1911-12 under Wilhelm Filchner named Drygalski Fjord and this glacier for Erich von Drygalski, leader of the German expedition of 1901-03, but this name for the glacier did not survive.

Location

References

  • Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Risting Glacier
Glaciers of South Georgia

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