Disbreen
| Disbreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 20 ′ S , 42 ° 21 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Cosmonaut Lake | |
The Disbreen ( Japanese か す み 氷河 Kasumi-hyōga , translated on both sides indistinct glacier ) is a wide glacier on the Crown Prince Olav coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It flows into the Cosmonaut Sea immediately east of Kasumi Rock .
Participants in a Japanese Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1957 to 1962 mapped, photographed and named him. Norwegian cartographers translated the name into Norwegian. In the English-speaking world it is known as Kasumi Glacier .
Web links
- Kasumi Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kasumi Glacier on geographic.org (English)