Caughley Beach
| Caughley Beach | ||
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 Map of Ross Island with Caughley Beach (top left) |
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | McMurdo Sound | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Caughley Beach is a beach on the west coast of the Antarctic Ross Island . It is the northernmost beach on the ice-free coast southwest of Cape Bird .
Participants in a 1958-1959 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition mapped and named him. It is named after the New Zealand biologist Graeme James Caughley (1937-1994), who was part of the team that visited Cape Bird on this research trip.
Web links
- Caughley Beach in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Caughley Beach on geographic.org (English)