Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf

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The Riiser -Larsen Ice Shelf is a 400 -kilometer ice shelf panel, which is on the Crown Princess Martha Coast of western Queen Maud country and from Norvegia Cape to Lyddan Island to the north and to the Stancomb - Wills - glacier extends to the south and the west of this location, Weddell Sea separates it from the King Haakon VII - Lake in the east. It has nothing to do with the much further east Riiser -Larsen Lake.

Parts of the panel were spotted by William Speirs Bruce in 1904, Ernest Shackleton in 1915 and Hjalmar Riiser -Larsen 1930. The largest portion was from 1951 to 1952 photographed and mapped by the Norwegian - British - Swedish Antarctic Expedition from the air. Additional mapping of the southern and landward margins were made by shot in Operation Deep Freeze air photos. The panel was named by Norway to Captain Hjalmar Riiser -Larsen, who explored the area in 1930.