Drygalski Ice Tongue

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The Drygalski ice tongue (synonyms: Drygalski barrier and Drygalski glacier tongue ) is a glacier in Antarctica, which opens as an extension of the David Glacier on the east coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound. The ice tongue has a north-south extent of 14-24 km and a length of more than 48 km. The age of the ice is estimated to be up to 4000 years.

Was discovered in the ice tongue in January 1902 as part of the Discovery Expedition ( 1901-1904 ) by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who named it after the German Polar researcher Erich von Drygalski, the same time as the Gauss expedition to Kaiser Wilhelm II. - country initiated. Likelihood of confusion with the Drygalski Glacier (64 ° 43 ' S, 60 ° 44' W 64.716666666667 60.733333333333 - ) on the east coast of the Antarctic Graham Lands.

In May 2005, broke after the collision with the iceberg B- 15A from two approximately 70 square kilometers large plates of the Drygalski ice tongue. Another clash with the similarly derived from the Ross Ice Shelf iceberg C-16 to end of March 2006, in which a fragment of more than 100 square kilometers was separated from the ice tongue occurred.