Gould coast
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Map sheet showing the southwestern part of the Gould coast
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location | Marie-Byrd-Land (politically Ross Dependency ), West Antarctica | |
Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
From |
Scott Glacier 85 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 153 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W |
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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.
Web links
- Gould Coast in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gould Coast on geographic.org (English)