Petter Sørlle

Petter Sørlle (February 16, 1884 – May 29, 1933) was a Norwegian whaling captain and inventor.

[1] Petter Martin Mattias Koch Sørlle was born at Tune (now Sarpsborg) in Østfold, Norway.

The pickup slip was first used in the Antarctic Ocean by the whaling company Globus of Larvik on board the FLK Lancing during the season 1925–26.

[3] Sørlle was the first manager of the United Whalers whaling shore station at Stromness, South Georgia.

During his running surveys, Sørlle named a number of features in the South Orkney Islands, including:

FLK Lancing