Shirase may refer to:
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Shirase Nobu
was a Japanese army officer and explorer. He led the first Japanese Antarctic Expedition, 1910–12, which reached a southern latitude of 80°5′, and made the first landing on the coast of King Edward VII Land.
Shirase had harboured polar a ...
(1861–1946), Japanese explorer
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Japanese icebreaker ''Shirase'' (AGB-5002), a ship operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, decommissioned in July 2008
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Japanese icebreaker ''Shirase'' (AGB-5003), a ship which succeeded to the above
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Shirase Coast
Shirase Coast () is the north segment of the relatively ill-defined coast along the east side of Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Sea, lying between the north end of Siple Coast (about ) and Cape Colbeck. Named by NZ-APC in 1961 after Lieutenant No ...
, Antarctica
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Shirase Glacier
Shirase Glacier (; ''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) ...
, Antarctica
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Shirase Bank, Antarctica
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Battle Programmer Shirase'', an anime series
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