Kainan Maru (開南丸) was a converted fishing boat that was used as the expedition vessel during the Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910 to 1912. Substantially...

The Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910–12, in the ship Kainan Maru, was the first such expedition by a non-European nation. It was concurrent with...

their useful lives were over. The fate of the Japanese Kainan Maru is unknown. The others, twelve ships in all, continued their maritime duties and were wrecked...

ship; it was the Kainan Maru, carrying the Japanese Antarctic Expedition led by Nobu Shirase. Communication between the two expeditions was limited by language...

four Dundee whaling ships travelled south to the Antarctic in search of whales instead of their usual Arctic route. The expedition was accompanied by several...

landing on the ice shelf here from the ship Kainan Maru. Little America V, the main scientific base of the U.S. Antarctic program during the International Geophysical...

in the Southern Ocean in 1911. Ensign Nobu Shirase explored with the Kainan Maru the eastern part of the Ross Ice Shelf. The years between 1910 until...

was able to raise funds for an Antarctic expedition, which sailed from Tokyo in the converted fishing vessel Kainan Maru, on 29 November 1910. The plan...

associated with Mercury; escarpments are called rupes and are named after the ships of famous explorers; long, narrow depressions are called fossae and are...

Japanese Antarctic Expedition, led by Nobu Shirase, departed Tokyo on the ship Kainan Maru. Inventor Ernest E. Sirrine of Chicago received U.S. Patent No. 976...

bill for the Australian ballot. The Japanese Antarctic Expedition reached its limit as the Kainan Maru arrived at Coulman Island and could proceed no...