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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 1,793 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Torii, Glacier”
Torii Glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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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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