König Glacier is a glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

, 3 nautical miles (6 km) long and 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) wide, flowing in a northerly direction from the north side of Neumayer Glacier

Neumayer Glacier

Neumayer Glacier is a glacier, 8 nautical miles long and 2 nautical miles wide, which flows east along the north flank of the Allardyce Range to the west side of the head of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia...

 to the head of Fortuna Bay

Fortuna Bay

Fortuna Bay is a bay 3 miles long and 1 mile wide, entered between Cape Best and Robertson Point on the north coast of South Georgia. Named after the whaling expedition under C.A...

, South Georgia

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia and a chain of smaller islands, known as the South Sandwich...

. First surveyed in 1928-29 by a German expedition under Kohl-Larsen, who named it for Felix Konig, Austrian mountaineer with the German Antarctic Expedition

Wilhelm Filchner

Wilhelm Filchner was a German explorer.At the age of 21, he participated in his first expedition, which led him to Russia. Two years later, he travelled alone and on horseback through the Pamir Mountains, from Osh to Murgabh to the upper Wakhan to Tashkurgan and back...

, 1911–12, under Wilhelm Filchner

Wilhelm Filchner

Wilhelm Filchner was a German explorer.At the age of 21, he participated in his first expedition, which led him to Russia. Two years later, he travelled alone and on horseback through the Pamir Mountains, from Osh to Murgabh to the upper Wakhan to Tashkurgan and back...

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