Torii glacier
| Torii glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Fabiola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 19 ′ S , 35 ° 38 ′ E | |
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The Torii Glacier ( French Glacier Torii ) is a glacier in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Queen Fabiola Mountains it flows northwest between Mount Goossens and Mount Fukushima .
Participants in a Belgian Antarctic expedition lasting from 1959 to 1961 discovered it on October 7, 1960. Expedition leader Guido Derom (1923–2005) named the glacier after the geochemist Tetsuya Torii (1918–2008), head of a Japanese team that set up this area in November 1960 explored.
Web links
- Torii Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Torii Glacier on geographic.org (English)