Caird coast
Caird coast
Caird Coast , Cairdland
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The cliffs of the Caird Coast as photographed by Frank Hurley on the Endurance expedition
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location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
Waters | Weddell Sea | |
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Stancomb-Wills Glacier 75 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 20 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W |
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Hayes Glacier 76 ° 16 ′ 0.1 ″ S , 27 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ W |
Coordinates: 76 ° 0 ′ S , 24 ° 0 ′ W
The Caird Coast is an Antarctic coast on the Weddell Sea south of the Brunt Ice Shelf with Halley Station . It belongs to the Coatsland , as does the Prinzregent-Luitpold-Land to the southwest . In the east, the Princess Martha Coast joins in Queen Maud Land .
Ernest Shackleton named the coast during the British Endurance Expedition in 1914 after the Scottish entrepreneur Sir James Key Caird (1837-1916), who was the main financier of this expedition with £ 24,000.
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- ↑ Bertelsmann House Atlas. Gütersloh 1960, p. 107.