Ōgi Beach
| Ōgi Beach | ||
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| location | Rumpa , Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 39 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Ōgi Beach ( Japanese 扇 浜 Ōgi-hama , German for 'fan beach ' ) is a beach at the head of a bay in the south of the island of Rumpa in the eastern part of the Lützow-Holm Bay on the Prince Harald coast of the East Antarctic Queen -Maud Lands is located.
Participants in a Japanese Antarctic expedition carried out from 1957 to 1962 mapped the beach. The name was given by Japanese scientists in 1973. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated them into English in 1975.
Web links
- Ōgi Beach in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ōgi Beach on geographic.org (English)