Jizo Ike

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Jizo Ike
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Geographical location Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
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Coordinates 69 ° 28 '40 "  S , 39 ° 34' 14"  E Coordinates: 69 ° 28 '40 "  S , 39 ° 34' 14"  E
Jizo Ike (Antarctica)
Jizo Ike

Jizo Ike (from Japanese 地 蔵 池 ) is a small lake on the Prince Harald Coast of Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . It is located on the Skarvsnes peninsula on the east bank of the Lützow-Holm Bay in the southwest of Kizahashi Beach .

Japanese scholars named him in 2012 after Jizo , a bodhisattva figure particularly popular in Japan .

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