Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Drygalski Glacier

(Nordenskjöld Coast)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 64° 42' 58" S 61° W
flowing SE into Larsen Ice Shelf, SW of Cape Worsley, Nordenskjöld Coast, was roughly mapped as a bay by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in 1902 and called Von Drygalski Bucht, after Prof. Erich Dagobert von Drygalski (1865-1949), German geographer and polar explorer; Leader of the German Antarctic Expedition, 1901-03. On his flight of 20 December 1928 Wilkins re-identified the feature as a 'bay'. The feature was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Hope Bay' in November 1947 and found to be a glacier.