Davis coast
| Davis coast | |
|---|---|
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| Waters | Gerlache Street |
| Northeast |
Cape Kjellman 63 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W. |
| southwest |
Cape Sterneck 64 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 61 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ W. |
Coordinates: 64 ° S , 60 ° W
The Davis Coast is a 74 km long stretch of coast in the west of the Antarctic Peninsula , which lies between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck in Grahamland . The Danco Coast connects to the south and the Trinity Peninsula to the north .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after the American seal hunter John Davis (1784 - approx. 1860), who was probably the first person to set foot on the Antarctic continent in Hughes Bay on February 7, 1821 .
Web links
- Davis Coast in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Davis Coast on geographic.org (English)