Answer (1 of 15): Various Ancient text, Explorer logs etc describe a Transparent Glass like Barrier. Part of the Rauner Special Collections Library Repository. [61][62] Thick sea ice had formed in the inner part of the bay, so Kainan Maru could not approach the Barrier edge, and had to moor to the ice some distance away. [8][20] Hamre praises Nomura's seamanship as worthy of comparison with that of the great navigators. [14], Among the personnel selected were two Ainu people from the far northern Japanese islands, chosen for their skills with dogs and sledges. [21], Shirase set 28 November 1910 as his departure date,[22] and announced details of the timetable he planned to follow. For the sake of bushido (honour) we must correct this regrettable situation". "[33] On 12 March, when the ship's position was 7416'S, 1727'E, it was halted by heavy ice. But the Ross Sea Committee, which organised the expedition, worked to imbue the public with a sense that their country had a stake in the Antarctic territory they claimed: the New Zealand Antarctic Expedition, as it was often called domestically, would be a triumph for their nation. Nonetheless, the New Zealand government still had to heavily subsidise the enterprise. Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition Data Reports. On top of that, it carries a Navy pursuit plane and it drives over the South Pole's icy wastelands. Edmund Hillary, left, and British explorer Vivian Fuchs at the South Pole during their 1950s expedition. [7] Undaunted, Shirase then changed his plans; he would go south instead, and aim for the still unconquered South Pole. Deteriorating weather made this operation a fraught and hurried process, and resulted in much being left behind including, much to the men's distress, all the dogs. Some materials deposited at the Institute are NOT owned by the Institute. Write an article and join a growing community of more than 160,300 academics and researchers from 4,571 institutions. After an initial speculation about pirates, they saw as they drew nearer that the ship was flying the Norwegian flag, and realised that this was Amundsen's ship, Fram. To reduce costs and reflect New Zealands agricultural strengths, he travelled with three TE20 Massey Ferguson tractors, modified with a full tracking system for use in the snowy conditions. Back To . [8], Leaving Wellington on 11 February, Kainan Maru soon ran into stormy seas, with waves among the biggest that Captain Namora had ever encountered. [44] On 22 June, the camp was decorated with flags to mark the coronation of King George V, and visitors were entertained with exhibitions of traditional martial arts. The Antarctic Treaty. the research station" Showa station" which located at 6900 S 3935 E in. About JARE (Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition), Website of Antarctic Research (in Japanese), Research Organization of Information and Systems, Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research. The 1983 movie Antarctica is based on a 1958 Japanese expedition: two dogs really survived by themselves for one full year in Antarctica and recognized their master when he came back: tough dogs. [94] In 1981 Shirase's hometown, Nikaho, erected a statue in his memory, and in 1990 opened a museum dedicated to his expedition. 1958 West Germany Cover - South Pole Expedition, Antarctic . The Expedition. [76] There were no fatalities or serious injuries among the personnel all returned safely home. At the end of the first expedition in 1956-57 a wintering party of eleven members remained in Antarctica from February 1957 to February 1958, and ac complished preliminary research in cosmic-rays and auroral phemomena at the Japanese Base (690'22" S, 3935'24" E), and in geology and glaciology along the Prince Harald Coast. National Institute of Polar Research Japan commenced its scientific activities in Antarctica in 1956, which was marked by the voyage of "Soya" with the 1st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) on board. The 15 dogs had been left chained with several days' worth of food accessible.[1]. The Japanese Antarctic Expedition, led by army lieutenant Nobu Shirase, which aims to reach the Pole, is the first Japanese exploration of Antarctic territory. Yet the drama was still not over. Luckily not all of these photographs capture tragic events that occurred in history, as there are plenty that captures the glory of the past. Fuchs party arrived, rather anticlimactically, at Scott Base on March 2, 1958, completing the historic 3473km journey. Perhaps most significantly, an exercise designed to showcase Commonwealth unity ended up demonstrating the opposite. [22] After cargo trimming in Tateyama, the ship finally left Japan on 1 December,[24] carrying 27 men and 28 Siberian dogs,[8] leaving behind a debt that would increase considerably during the course of the expedition, and would burden Shirase for many years. This was to the chagrin of many scientists in both parties, including the IGY scientific leader Trevor Hatherton, who decried the sites poor conditions for geologic, geomagnetic and seismic research. [89] After taking on fresh coal and provisions, Kainan Maru left Wellington on 2 April, and arrived in Yokohama on 19 June. The availability since 2011 of an English translation of Shirase's account has revealed the story of the expedition to a wider audience. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. To request this item, please visit or contact us. 1958] (229) General Report on the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition II, -1957-58. Syowa Station, the primary station for JARE operations, is located along the northeastern coastal region of Ltzow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica (69 00'S, 39 35'E), and was opened on 29 January 1957. Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University, Daniella McCahey has received funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand and the National Science Foundation. [96] He died in relative obscurity in 1946. The area appears to have been subsumed into, "About JARE (Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition)", "Ross Sea Ice Shelf The World's Largest Body of Floating Ice", "The Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1912", "Japanese Antarctica Expedition and the Shirase Sword", "Memorial plaque to the Japanese Antarctic Expedition visit to Parsley Bay, Sydney in 1911", "A century later, Shirase returns to Sydney a hero", "Nankyoku no kyoku: The cultural life of the Shirase Antarctic Expedition 191012", "Science, the South Pole, and the Japanese expedition of 19101912", "The Antarctica seen 100 years ago by the Shirase Japanese Antarctic Expedition", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese_Antarctic_Expedition&oldid=1134397295, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 18 January 2023, at 13:42. The newly established Scott Base was intended to serve the interests of both New Zealands IGY and TAE parties, and was placed under Hillarys command. [38] Tension had grown following Japan's recent military victories in Russia and China, and as in New Zealand, there was considerable suspicion about the party's true purpose. In January 1959, a third team returned to Showa and sought to determine the fate of the dogs. Most famous for being the first man to ascend Mt Everest . [43][41], The expedition found another influential supporter, in the person of Tannatt Edgeworth David, professor of geology at the University of Sydney. Since then, Japan has performed various observations at Syowa Station and the surrounding areas, and resulted in outstanding scientific outcome such as findings of ozone hole and Antarctic meteorites, recovery of climate change in the past through analyses of ice core, understanding of aurora generation mechanism, unexpected finding of puzzling ecosystems in Antarctic lakes, and findings of evidence of Gondwana, etc. OPINION: When the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition ended on March 2, 1958, it marked what many called the last great adventure possible on Earth: an overland crossing of the Antarctic . On 29 November 1910, a Japanese expedition bound for the Antarctic left Tokyo's Shibaura Harbour, farewelled by a crowd of over 50,000 people. The surrounding plain was named by Shirase as Yamato Yukihara ("Japanese Snow Plain"). [34] In difficult and dangerous conditions, Nomura's skilful seamanship turned the ship northwards, and they were able to escape from the danger. Japanese Antarctic Expedition, 1958 - 1959. The 12 nations listed in the preamble (below) signed the Antarctic Treaty on 1 December 1959 at Washington, D.C. [96] He had hoped to raise substantial funds from the sale of his expedition account, but found that, in the rapidly-changing Japan, the taste for the "Boys Own" type of adventure story had diminished he had become, as Stephanie Pain puts it in her New Scientist account, "the wrong sort of hero". After a brief ceremony and salute to the emperor, the party began its journey back to base. Takesi Nagata led the summer operations for 1956-1957. . Member of the Ross Dependency Research Committee from its inception in 1958, chairman 1971-1983; president of the New Zealand Antarctic Society (1960-63); member of the New Zealand Geographic Board (1968-86), and chaired the Royal . The trek was a distance of 3,473 kilometres and ended up taking 99 days. This project was a part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), and Japanese Syowa Station was established on Ongul Island in Antarctica in 1957. In the 1958 event, fifteen Sakhalin Husky sled dogs were abandoned when the expedition team was unable to return to the base. The ship itself, Kainan Maru, was sold back to its former owners, and resumed its fishery duties; its subsequent history is unknown. This would be the first overland crossing of the frozen continent. [17] David had been to the Antarctic with Shackleton, and was one of the party of three who had discovered the location of the South Magnetic Pole. This page was last edited on 13 February 2023, at 00:15. [88][90] On 1 February they arrived at the Bay of Whales, but ice conditions prevented them for two days from beginning the embarkation of Shirase's party. [76] Arriving at their base camp on 31January, they recovered from their exertions by sleeping for 36hours. 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