Sorge Island
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| Sorge Island | |
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| Location: | 67°10’51"S, 67°41’39"W |
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Sorge Island lies between The Gullet and Barlas Channel between Adelaide Island and the Loubet Coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.
The island was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Stonington Island" in 1948 and name in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area: Sorge Island specifically is named after Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Sorge (1899-1946), a German glaciologist who, as a member of the German expeditions to Greenland in 1929 and 1930-31 made the first seismic soundings of the Greenland ice sheet and developed a theory for the densification of firn, and who led an expedition to Svalbard in 1935.
Links
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Sorge Island