Kasumi skirt
| Kasumi skirt | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 42 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kasumi Rock ( Japanese か す み 岩 Kasumi-iwa , Norwegian Disheia , both sides translated indistinct rock ) is a rock formation on the Crown Prince Olav coast in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises up between the Torghattbreen and the Disbreen .
Participants in a Japanese Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1957 to 1962 mapped, photographed and named him. The US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the Japanese name into English in 1964.
Web links
- Kasumi Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kasumi Rock on geographic.org (English)