Torii Glacier
Torii Glacier is a glacier flowing northwest between Mount Goossens and Mount Fukushima in the Queen Fabiola Mountains. Discovered on October 7, 1960, by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, under Guido Derom, who named it after Tetsuya Torii, geochemist; leader of the Japanese party that visited this area in November 1960.- Glacier with an elevation of around 1,790 metres (5,880 feet)
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.31667° or 71° 19′ south
Longitude
35.66667° or 35° 40′ east
Open location code
2GWQMMM8+8M
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Torii Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Torii”
- Chinese: “鳥井冰川”
- German: “Torii-Gletscher”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Torii”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Toriibreen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Toriibreen”
- Norwegian: “Toriibreen”
- Swedish: “Torii (glaciär)”
- Swedish: “Torii”
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