McDonald Beach
| McDonald Beach | ||
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 Map with McDonald Beach in the northwest of Ross Island (top left) |
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| location | Cape Bird ( Ross Island , Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Waters | McMurdo Sound | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The McDonald Beach is a broad beach on the northwest coast of the Antarctic Ross Island . It is located west of Inclusion Hill on Cape Bird .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1958 to 1959 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after Captain Edwin Anderson McDonald (1907-1988), deputy commander of the United States Navy support forces assigned to Antarctica , who took the expedition into land surveys at Cape Bird had provided logistical support.
Web links
- McDonald Beach in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McDonald Beach on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 967-968 (English).