Torghattbreen
| Torghattbreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 7 ′ S , 42 ° 53 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Cosmonaut Lake | |
The Torghattbreen ( Japanese 市 女 氷河 Itime-hyōga , each for Markthut glacier ) is a glacier on the Crown Prince Olav coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It flows into the Southern Ocean immediately west of Kasumi Rock .
Participants in a Japanese Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1957 to 1962 mapped, photographed and named him. Scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute translated the name into Norwegian in 1973. In the English-speaking world, it is known as Itime Glacier and Ichime Glacier .
Web links
- Torghattbreen in the Norwegian Polar Institute directory
- Ichime Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ichime Glacier on geographic.org (English)