Kainan Maru
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Kainan Maru was a converted fishing boat that was used as the expedition vessel during the Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910 to 1912. Substantially smaller than other expedition ships of the era,
Kainan Maru: Japanese Antarctic Expedition ship
Nobu Shirase, leader of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition
Jubilee Dock, Sydney Harbour (1905)
Bay of Whales, photographed in 2007
Ross Ice Shelf
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The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica. It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 m high abov
Ross Ice Shelf cliff at the Bay of Whales
Crevasse, Ross Ice Shelf in 2001
"The mystic Barrier" at Bay of Whales, near where Amundsen first encountered it. Note humans for size comparison (dark spots at left between large chunks of sea ice, near the left image border). RV Nathaniel B. Palmer is in the distance.
Antarctica (Ross Ice Shelf) taken from orbit by Galileo