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    Nobu Shirase (白瀬 矗, Shirase Nobu) (20 July 1861 – 4 September 1946) was a Japanese army officer and explorer. He led the first Japanese Antarctic Expedition...
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  • Shirase may refer to: Shirase Nobu (1861–1946), Japanese explorer Japanese icebreaker Shirase (AGB-5002), a ship operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense...
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  • Japanese cross-country skier Nobu Shirase (1861–1946), Japanese army officer and explorer Nobu Su, Chinese businessman Nobu Tamura, French-born Japanese-American...
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    Accordingly, Shirase was named after the Shirase Glacier. This glacier bears the family name of Lieutenant Nobu Shirase, a Japanese pioneer in Antarctic exploration...
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    landfall was made by a party of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition led by Shirase Nobu in 1912. The region was renamed "Edward VII Peninsula" after the peninsular...
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    glacier bears the family name, which is written in kanji, of Lieutenant Nobu Shirase, a Japanese pioneer of Antarctic exploration. "Weathernews takes over...
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    injury or loss of life. The brainchild of an army reserve lieutenant, Nobu Shirase, the expedition was privately funded. It left Japan in November 1910...
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  • -151.000) and Cape Colbeck. Named by NZ-APC in 1961 after Lieutenant Nobu Shirase (1861–1946), leader of the Japanese expedition, whose ship Kainan Maru...
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    ferrite. Shirase Antarctic Memorial Museum (白瀬南極探検隊記念館) a memorial museum which focuses on the Antarctic Expedition by local explorer Shirase Nobu and includes...
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    It was named by the Japanese Antarctic Expedition under Lieutenant Shirase Nobu which, in January 1912, effected a landing on the ice shelf here from...
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    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...
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  • William Scoresby Robert Falcon Scott Georgy Sedov Ernest Shackleton Nobu Shirase Pyotr Shirshov Ivan Simonov Paul Siple Mikhail Somov Pavel Senko Mikhail...
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    Lieutenant Nobu Shirase, who believed that Japan should take its place alongside the Western powers in the exploration of Antarctica. Shirase's aim was a...
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    Scott in 1902. Named by the Japanese Antarctic Expedition led by Lt. Nobu Shirase (1911–12) after Count Shigenobu Okuma (1838–1922), the Premier of Japan...
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    Shimazaki Toson (1872 – 1943) 1993 Author Shinmi Masaoki 1960 Ambassador Shirase Nobu (1861 – 1964) 1960 Explorer 1999 Sho Deikun 1993 Shoriki Matsutaro (1885...
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    March 2023. "Letter written to Professor Edgeworth David by Lieutenant Nobu Shirase". The Australian Museum. Retrieved 16 August 2024. Seizo Miisho, Physician...
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  • a lecture about the first Japanese Antarctic Expedition (1910–12) by Nobu Shirase at Minami-za in his 11 age, and he had been attracted to exploration...
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  • [page needed] December - The Japanese Antarctic Expedition leaves Tokyo, led by Nobu Shirase. January 7 – Masako Shirasu, novelist (d. 1998) January 21 – Hideo Shinojima...
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  • Nathaniel Palmer Kainan Rupes -29.8 330.8 Kainan Maru, Japanese ship of Nobu Shirase Antarctic exploration La Duaphine Rupes 66.3 26.6 Ship of Giovanni da...
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  • it a mecca for amateur astronomers. JPL · 10147 10148 Shirase 1994 GR9 The adventurer Nobu Shirase (1861–1946) was the first Japanese person to explore...
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    The South Pole, Vol II. London: C Hurst & Co. ISBN 09-0398-347-8. "Nobu Shirase, 1861–1946". South-pole.com. Archived from the original on 27 October...
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    Jean-Baptiste Charcot 1910–1912 – Japanese Antarctic Expedition – led by Nobu Shirase 1910–1912 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition – On 14 December 1911...
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    Shelf. At the same time the first Japanese Antarctic Expedition led by Nobu Shirase landed a shore party on the peninsula. Dean Smith was the pilot during...
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    was the Kainan Maru, carrying the Japanese Antarctic Expedition led by Nobu Shirase. Communication between the two expeditions was limited by language difficulties...
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    often neglected in favor of other events that year, such as Captain Nobu Shirase's Antarctic expedition. The negative views of the Exhibition in Japanese...
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    Sea. The Japanese first arrived in the Southern Ocean in 1911. Ensign Nobu Shirase explored with the Kainan Maru the eastern part of the Ross Ice Shelf...
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    1910–1912 Nobu Shirase After the return of the expedition, Kainan Maru was sold back to its former owners, and resumed its work as a fishing vessel. Shirase devoted...
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  • : 46  An ambitious man, Umeya sent cameramen to Antarctica to record Nobu Shirase's expedition, and thus create one of Japan's first feature-length documentaries...
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  • Kyokusui-no-en (Water Poetry Party) at Mōtsū-ji temple Akita 1,740,000 Nobu Shirase and the Akita Kantō festival 24 2012 Okinawa 1,760,000 Naha Tug-of-war...
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  • 1909) September 3 – Paul Lincke, German composer (b. 1866) September 4 – Nobu Shirase, Japanese army officer and Antarctic explorer (b. 1861) September 10...
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