Borchgrevink coast
| Borchgrevink coast | ||
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 Coastline at Mount Herschel
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Ross Sea | |
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Cape Adare 71 ° 20 ′ 6 ″ S , 170 ° 8 ′ 23 ″ O |
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Cape Washington 74 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E |
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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 .
Web links
- Borchgrevink Coast in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 188 (English)