Shirase Glacier

Summary

Shirase Glacier is a glacier^[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of glacier entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Shirase Glacier is located in Antarctic Treaty area^[3].
• Shirase Glacier's video is recorded as Google Timelapse- Shirase Glacier Antarctica.webm^[4].
• Shirase Glacier's image is recorded as Antarctica, Norway territorial claim (Queen Maud Land, 2015).svg^[5].
• Shirase Glacier's continent is recorded as Antarctica^[6].
• Shirase Glacier's instance of is recorded as glacier^[7].
• Shirase Glacier's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -70.083333333333, 'lon': 38.75}^[8].
• Shirase Glacier's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/083kv0^[9].
• Shirase Glacier's GNIS Antarctica ID is recorded as 13746^[10].
• Shirase Glacier's GeoNames ID is recorded as 6625215^[11].
• Shirase Glacier's SCAR Composite Gazetteer place ID is recorded as 13189^[12].
• Shirase Glacier's Norwegian Polar Institute place name ID is recorded as 5a52f8a9-a991-5318-9ca8-38f17c78695c^[13].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Shirase Glacier include Japanese icebreaker Shirase^[14], an icebreaker^[15].

Why It Matters

Shirase Glacier ranks in the top 7% of glacier entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[16]

Entities named for it include Japanese icebreaker Shirase^[14], an icebreaker^[15].