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Japanese wooden fishing sailboat weighing 204 tons and equipped with an 18-horsepower auxiliary engine that was converted for use in the Japanese Antarctic Expedition in 1910-1912. Only 30 metres long, the ship was thought by many to be too small to make the voyage. It was renamed for the expedition, one of the English translations of 'Kainan Maru' being 'Opener-up of the South’.
