Shirase Glacier (; ''Shirase Hyōga'') is a large
glacier
A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...
entering
Havsbotn, the bay that forms the head of
Lutzow-Holm Bay in
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
. The area occupied by this feature was first mapped as a bay and named Instefjorden (the innermost fjord) by the
Lars Christensen Expedition
Lars is a common male name in Scandinavian countries.
Origin
''Lars'' means "from the city of Laurentum". Lars is derived from the Latin name Laurentius, which means "from Laurentum" or "crowned with laurel", and is therefore related to the name ...
(LCE) of 1936–37. Surveys by
Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition
The refers to a series of Japanese Antarctic expeditions for scientific research.
The first JARE expedition was launched in 1957 to coordinate with the International Geophysical Year. This was the team which left 15 dogs, including Taro and Ji ...
(JARE) of 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.
[ Its nearby features were also charted and named by JARE unless otherwise noted.
The Instekleppane Hills are a group of low rock hills that protrude above the ice slopes at the east side of Shirase Glacier, just south of the southeastern extremity of Lützow-Holm Bay in ]Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
. The hills were mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by LCE personnel and named "instekleppane" ("the innermost lumps") after their appearance.[ Oku-hyōga Rock sits southeast of Mae-hyoga, and is the southernmost bare rock exposed along the east side of the glacier.]
See also
* List of glaciers in the Antarctic
There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice ...
* List of Antarctic ice streams
References
Ice streams of Antarctica
Glaciers of Queen Maud Land
Prince Harald Coast
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