Gould coast

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Gould coast
Map sheet showing the southwestern part of the Gould coast
Map sheet showing the southwestern part of the Gould coast
Gould Coast (Antarctica)
Scott Glacier
Southern limit of the Siple coast
location Marie-Byrd-Land (politically Ross Dependency ), West Antarctica
Waters Ross Ice Shelf
From Scott Glacier
85 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  S , 153 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W
To Southern limit of the Siple coast
83 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 153 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W

Coordinates: 85 °  S , 150 °  W

The Gould Coast is a stretch of coastline in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It extends from the west side of the mouth of the Scott Glacier along the Ostrands the Ross ice shelf to the southern end of Siple Coast at 83 ° 30 '  S , 153 ° 0'  W . The Amundsen coast connects to the west . In the southwestern section of the Gould Coast, the Leverett Glacier flows into the Ross Ice Shelf, over which the South Pole Traverse also runs.

The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the kisses in 1961 after the American geologist Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995), deputy leader of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930), which in 1929 mapped around 280 km of the coastline.

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