Tama glacier
| Tama glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 47 ′ S , 40 ° 22 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Cosmonaut Lake | |
The Tama Glacier ( Japanese 玉 氷河 Tama-hyōga for 'pearl glacier') is a glacier on the Crown Prince Olav coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It flows into the Cosmonaut Sea between Tensoku Rock and Manjū Rock .
He was mapped and photographed by participants in the Japanese Antarctic expedition, which lasted from 1957 to 1962, and who also named him.
Web links
- Tama Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tama Glacier on geographic.org (English)