Drygalski Glacier

Drygalski Glacier is a broad glacier on the Nordenskjöld Coast of Graham Land, in the British Antarctic Territory. It is 18 nautical miles long and flows slowly south-eastward from the Herbert Plateau through a rectangular re-entrant to a point immediately north of Sentinel Nunatak on the coast, into the Larsen Ice Shelf. It enters the shelf ti the south-west of Cape Worsley.

The glacier was roughly mapped as a bay by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902 and called ‘Von Drygalski Bucht’ on Nordenskjöld’s map, after Professor Erich Dagobert von Drygalski (1865-1949), a German geographer and polar explorer; Leader of German Antarctic Expediton of 1901-03. The glacier was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Hope Bay" in November 1947 and found to be a glacier.. (Drygalski Fjord on South Georgia is also named after Professor von Drygalski.)

Location

This glacier is to the east of the Forbidden Plateau, south-east of the Herbert Plateau, south-west of the Detroit Plateau and north-east of the Weddell Sea. The Foster Plateau, Anderson Peak and Seal Nunataks are to the south.

Location map

• Location: 64°42’58"S, 61°0’0"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Drygalski Glacier