Yamato glacier
| Yamato glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Fabiola Mountains | |
| width | Max. 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 25 ′ S , 35 ° 35 ′ E | |
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The Yamato Glacier ( French Glacier Yamato ) is a 10 km wide glacier in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Queen Fabiola Mountains it flows between Mount Fukushima and Mount Eyskens to the west.
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 Yamato-damashii , the epitome of the Japanese people. The background for this name was the fact that a Japanese team explored this area between November and December 1960.
Web links
- Yamato Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Yamato Glacier on geographic.org (English)