Sorge Island

Sorge Island (67°11′S 67°43′W / 67.183°S 67.717°W / -67.183; -67.717Coordinates: 67°11′S 67°43′W / 67.183°S 67.717°W / -67.183; -67.717) is an island lying just south of The Gullet in Barlas Channel, close east of Adelaide Island. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from surveys and air photos, 1948-59. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Ernst F.W. Sorge, German glaciologist who made the first seismic soundings of the Greenland ice sheet, 1929–31, and developed a theory of the densification of firn.

See also

List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

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