Drygalski Ice Tongue

They then crossed the Drygalski Ice Tongue and turned inland.

The difficulties may end soon, however, as the berg is drifting toward a glacier, the Drygalski Ice Tongue.

As the David Glacier flows into the Ross Sea, it forms a floating mass known as the Drygalski Ice Tongue.

The men started home for Hut Point on September 30, 1912, some two hundred miles down the coast, which would include the crossing of the Drygalski Ice Tongue.

In 2005 prevailing currents took B-15A slowly past the Drygalski Ice Tongue; the collision broke off the tip of Drygalski in mid-April.

The largest moving object on Earth, the iceberg B15A in Antarctica has collided with the Drygalski ice tongue, a feature large enough to be included in Antarctic maps.

Despite their physical weakness, the whole party managed to reach Cape Evans on 7 November, after a perilous journey which included a crossing of the difficult Drygalski Ice Tongue.

As Discovery edged out from the ice and preparations were made for her voyage home, Mulock was permitted to conduct the first-ever running survey of the Drygalski Ice Tongue.

It is nourished by the Priestley and Reeves Glaciers and abutting the north side of the Drygalski Ice Tongue, along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

Drygalski Ice Tongue became well established by the name Drygalski Ice Tongue before it became usual to give the same name to a glacier and its glacier tongue.

The feature is formed along a shear plane caused by differential ice movement near the coast of Victoria Land involving the north edge of Drygalski Ice Tongue and south extremities of the Nansen Ice Sheet.

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, leader of the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE) (1901-1904), discovered Drygalski Ice Tongue in January 1902 and named it for Prof. Erich von Drygalski, a contemporary German explorer then in Antarctica.