Risting Glacier
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
- Location: 54°44’58"S, 36°8’51"W
References
- Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Risting Glacier
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