Shirase Glacier
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Shirase Glacier () is a large glacier entering Havsbotn, the bay that forms the head of Lutzow-Holm Bay. 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 JARE, 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.
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This article incorporates text from Shirase Glacier, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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