Sorsdal Glacier is a heavily crevassed 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...

, 15 nautical miles (28 km) long, flowing westward along the south side of Krok Fjord

Krok Fjord

Krok Fjord is a narrow sinuous fjord, 11 nautical miles long, between Mule Peninsula and Sorsdal Glacier Tongue, at the south end of the Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition and named Krokfjorden ....

 and the Vestfold Hills

Vestfold Hills

Vestfold Hills is an area of rounded rock coastal hills, in extent, located at the north side of Sorsdal Glacier on Ingrid Christensen Coast in Antarctica. The hills are subdivided by three west-trending peninsulas bounded by narrow fjords...

 and terminating in a prominent glacier tongue at Prydz Bay

Prydz Bay

Prydz Bay is a deep embayment of Antarctica between the Lars Christensen Coast and Ingrid Christensen Coast. Portions of the bay were sighted in January and February 1931 by Norwegian whalers and the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition...

. Discovered in February 1935 by a Norwegian expedition in the for Lief Sorsdal, a Norwegian dentist and a member of the party from Thorshavn that landed at the northern end of the Vestfold Hills.

Sorsdal Glacier Tongue is the prominent seaward extension of Sorsdal Glacier into Prydz Bay

Prydz Bay

Prydz Bay is a deep embayment of Antarctica between the Lars Christensen Coast and Ingrid Christensen Coast. Portions of the bay were sighted in January and February 1931 by Norwegian whalers and the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition...

. Discovered by Captain Klarius Mikkelsen in 1935 and named in association with Sorsdal Glacier.