Drygalski Island

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The Drygalski Island is an island in the Southern Ocean near the Shackleton Ice Shelf in Ostantarktika. The island is 20.6 km long and 13.4 km wide. It covers 693.7 km ². The height of the ice dome is 327 m above sea level. The ice cap Drygalski Island sits on a bench covered with moraine of Davissee, so that the island is composed entirely of ice. The depth under the island varies between 68 m and 200 m.

The Drygalski island was discovered in 1902 by the First German Antarctic Expedition of Erich von Drygalski from captive balloon.

In November 1912 members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition ( 1911-1914 ) sighted the island again. The leader of the expedition, Douglas Mawson, she had on the way back in January 1914 to explore in more detail. He named the island after Erich von Drygalski.