Shirase glacier
| Shirase glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 5 ′ S , 38 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Havsbotn | |
The Shirase Glacier ( Japanese 白 瀬 氷河 , Shirase Hyōga ) is a large glacier in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It flows from an area not far from the Belgica Mountains in a northerly direction to the Havsbotn , a side bay of the Lützow-Holm-Bucht at its head end.
During the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 , the area occupied by the glacier was mapped as a bay and named Instefjorden (Norwegian for Inner Fjord ). During surveys by participants in the Japanese Antarctic Expedition, which lasted from 1957 to 1962, the glacier was discovered and named after the Japanese polar explorer Shirase Nobu (1861-1946), head of the First Japanese Expedition (1910-1912).
Web links
- Shirase Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shirase Glacier on geographic.org (English)