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Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf
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Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf
Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf
is an
ice shelf
about 250 miles (400 km) long on the coast of
Queen Maud Land
, extending from
Cape Norvegia
in the north to
Lyddan Island
and
Stancomb-Wills Glacier
in the south. Parts of the
ice shelf
were sighted by
William Speirs Bruce
in 1904,
Ernest Shackleton
in 1915, and
Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen
in 1930. Most of it was photographed from the air in 1951-52 by the
Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition
(NBSAE) and delineated from these photos. Additional delineation of the southern and landward margins of the feature was accomplished from air photos taken, by USN
Operation Deep Freeze
from 1967 to 1969. The feature was named by
Norway
for Capt. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, who explored the area in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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