Tenga Hyôbaku
| Tenga Hyôbaku | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Belgica Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 35 ′ S , 31 ° 20 ′ E | |
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Tenga Hyôbaku ( Japanese 天河 氷瀑 'Tenga Icefall' ) is a glacial break in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located in the southern part of the Belgica Mountains .
Japanese scientists took aerial photographs in 1976 , carried out on-site measurements from 1979 to 1980 and gave the glacier break its name in 1981. It is named after the predominant rock amazonite , which is translated from Japanese as Tenga-isi .
Web links
- Tenga Hyôbaku in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)