MILITARY PERSONNEL

Shirase Nobu

1861 - 1946

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Nobu Shirase (白瀬 矗, Shirase Nobu) (20 July 1861 – 4 September 1946) was a Japanese army officer and explorer. He led the first Japanese Antarctic Expedition, 1910–12, which reached a southern latitude of 80°5′, and made the first landing on the coast of King Edward VII Land. Shirase had harboured polar ambitions since boyhood. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shirase Nobu has received more than 45,137 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Shirase Nobu is the 1,633rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,372nd in 2019), the 1,087th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,000th in 2019) and the 87th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Shirase Nobu ranks 1,633 out of 2,058. Before him are Tang Enbo, Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Philotas, Nikolai Ruzsky, Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, and Christine Jorgensen. After him are Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, Dmitry Senyavin, Franciszek Kleeberg, Raúl Reyes, Wilhelm Hasse, and August Emil Fieldorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Shirase Nobu ranks 102. Before him are Richard Sears, Fanny Brate, Herbert Hall Turner, Ludwig Thuille, Hannes Hafstein, and Racho Petrov. After him are Krikor Zohrab, Maximilian Harden, Maxime Maufra, Ernest Renshaw, Mikhail Matyushin, and Nikola Ivanov. Among people deceased in 1946, Shirase Nobu ranks 155. Before him are William Wain Prior, Cesare Orsenigo, Carl Theodor Zahle, Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães, Amir Hamzah, and Júlio Prestes. After him are Teizo Takeuchi, Rudolf Walden, Renée Jeanne Falconetti, Jacob Ellehammer, Moisei Ginzburg, and Saint Alphonsa.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shirase Nobu ranks 1,087 out of 6,245. Before him are Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899), Toyohara Chikanobu (1838), Hidemaro Watanabe (1924), Shigemi Ishii (1951), Tsuneko Okazaki (1933), and Uemura Shōen (1875). After him are Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (1949), Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874), Masujiro Nishida (1899), Teizo Takeuchi (1908), Morihiro Saito (1928), and Miho Kaneda (1950).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Shirase Nobu ranks 87. Before him are Shōji Nishimura (1889), Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu (1875), Akashi Motojiro (1864), Kijirō Nambu (1869), Jinichi Kusaka (1888), and Kiyotake Kawaguchi (1892). After him are Nozu Michitsura (1840), Mutsuhiro Watanabe (1918), Kiichiro Higuchi (1888), and George W. Casey Jr. (1948).

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