Borchgrevink coast

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Borchgrevink coast
Coastline at Mount Herschel
Coastline at Mount Herschel
Borchgrevink Coast (Antarctica)
Cape Adare
Cape Washington
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Waters Ross Sea
From Cape Adare
71 ° 20 ′ 6 ″  S , 170 ° 8 ′ 23 ″  O
To Cape Washington
74 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  S , 165 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E

Coordinates: 73 ° 0 ′  S , 169 ° 30 ′  E

The Borchgrevink Coast is a stretch of coast between Cape Adare and Cape Washington in Victoria Land in Antarctica . The Scott coast joins it in the south , and the Pennell coast in the west beyond Cape Adare .

The name was recommended in 1961 by the New Zealand Place Name Commission for the Antarctic (NZ-APC) in memory of Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink . He was a member of Henryk Bull's Antarctic expedition in 1894 and 1895 and later head of the Southern Cross expedition in 1898/1900. At Cape Adare he was the first to winter on the Antarctic continent.

Coulman Island is 15 kilometers off the Borchgrevink coast .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 188 (English)