Kainan Maru

Japanese: 開南丸 - かいなんまる
Kainan Maru

...Furthermore, after learning that an American team had reached the North Pole in 1909, he planned an Antarctic expedition. On November 29, 1910, he left Tokyo on the Kainan Maru with 26 members of the team, and landed on the Antarctic on January 16, 1912, reaching a point at 80°5′ south latitude (which he named the Yamato Snowfields), but due to food shortages and other reasons he gave up the expedition and returned home. [Harada Katsumasa]...

From [Antarctica]

…In the western Ross Sea, open water occurs relatively early in summer, and sometimes reaches the edge of the ice shelf. Examples include the voyage of the British ships J.C. Ross's Erebus and Terror to the Ross Sea in 1841, and the landing of the Kainan Maru by Shirase on the Ross Ice Shelf in 1912. Open water also occurs easily in the eastern Weddell Sea, and many ships have approached the coast since ancient times, with observation stations established on the coastal ice shelves. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the Kainan Maru is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…さらに1909年アメリカ隊の北極点到達を知って,南極探検を計画する。10年11月29日26人の隊員とともに開南丸で東京を出発し,12年1月16日南極に上陸,南緯80゜5′地点(大和雪原と命名)まで達したが,食糧不足などから探検を断念して帰国した。【原田 勝正】。…

【南極】より

…ロス海の西部は夏には比較的早く開水面が生じ,ときには棚氷縁まで開水面となる。1841年のイギリスのJ.C.ロスの〈エレバス〉〈テラー〉の2帆船のロス海への航海,1912年の白瀬の〈開南丸〉のロス棚氷への着船などのときがその例である。またウェッデル海東部も開水面が生じやすく,古くから多くの船が海岸まで接近しており,沿岸の棚氷上に観測基地が設けられている。…

※「開南丸」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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