Sorge Island
Sorge Island is an island lying just south of The Gullet in Barlas Channel, close east of Adelaide Island. Mapped by Falkland [Islands Dependencies Survey] from surveys and air photos, 1948–59. Named by United [Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee] 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.