Amundsen coast

Amundsen coast
	The map sheet shows most of the coast, with the exception of the part west of 165 ° W
location	East Antarctica
Waters	Ross Ice Shelf
From	Morris Peak ; 84 ° 56 '0 " S , 167 ° 22' 0" W
To	Scott Glacier ; 85 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 153 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W

The Amundsen Coast is a stretch of coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It is located south of the Ross Ice Shelf between the on the eastern side of the mouth of Liv Glacier towering Morris Peak and the west side of the mouth of the Scott Glacier . The Gould Coast , the westernmost part of which is the Scott Glacier, connects to the east , and the Dufek Coast to the west .

The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the coast in 1961 after the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928), who together with four companions on December 14, 1911 after a dog sled march across the Ross Ice Shelf, the Axel-Heiberg -Glacier and the central polar plateau were the first to reach the geographic South Pole .

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