Shirase Glacier

Coordinates: 70°5′S 38°45′E / 70.083°S 38.750°E / -70.083; 38.750

Shirase Glacier
Location of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
Location of Shirase Glacier in Antarctica
Location	Queen Maud Land
Coordinates	70°55′S 38°45′E / 70.917°S 38.750°E / -70.917; 38.750
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Lützow-Holm Bay
Status	unknown

Shirase Glacier (Japanese: 白瀬氷河; Shirase Hyōga) is a large glacier entering Havsbotn, the bay that forms the head of Lutzow-Holm Bay in Antarctica. The area occupied by this feature was first mapped as a bay and named Instefjorden (the innermost fjord) by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37. Surveys by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, 1957-62, revealed the large glacier in this position which they named after Lt. Nobu Shirase, leader of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1911-12.^[1]

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• List of Antarctic ice streams
• Glaciology

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Shirase Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).