Oatesland

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Oatesland
Map sheet with Oatesland (part)
Map sheet with Oatesland (part)
Oatesland (Antarctica)
Cape Hudson
Cape Williams
location Viktorialand , East Antarctica - United States Geological Survey definition :
Waters Somow Lake ( Southern Ocean )
From Cape Hudson
68 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  S , 153 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E
To Cape Williams
70 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 164 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  E

Coordinates: 70 °  S , 159 °  E

The Oatesland , also known as the Oates Coast , is an area of East Antarctica that stretches between Cape Hudson (153 ° 45 'E) in the west and Cape Williams (164 ° 9' E) in the east and the coastal area of ​​the northern Victoria Land represents. According to another interpretation, the boundaries lie between the Cook Ice Shelf (152 ° 30 'E) and the Rennick Glacier (160 ° 45' E). The Pennell coast connects to the east , and the Georg V coast to the west . The Somow Sea lies off the coast .

The eastern part was discovered on February 22, 1911 by Lieutenant Harry Lewin Lee Pennell (1882-1916), a crew member of the Terra Nova during the Antarctic expedition of the same name (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . Pennell named the stretch of coast after Lawrence Oates (1880–1912), who died with Scott and three companions on the way back from the geographic South Pole. The western section not far from the Mawson Peninsula was outlined using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946–1947). Further aerial photographs were taken and measurements were carried out during the Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956-1958), the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (1959, 1961, and 1962), the United States Navy (1960 and 1962) and the United States Geological Survey (1962–1963 and 1963–1964).

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