Shirase Hyôga (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Shirase Hyôga (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier (12)
This name originates from Japan. It is part of the Japan Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A large glacier flowing north to the head of Lützow-Holmbukta. The northernmost part of the glacier was first recognized as an ice-covered fjord and mapped by the name of Instefjorden by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37. The JARE of 1957 found existence of a large glacier in the area, and named Shirase Hyôga after Nobu Shirase, leader of the first Japanese Antarctic expedition of 1911-12.
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