Prince Harald Coast
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht ( Kosmonautensee , Southern Ocean ) | |
| east | 68 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 40 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| west |
Riiser-Larsen Peninsula 68 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 34 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E |
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Coordinates: 69 ° 30 ′ S , 36 ° 0 ′ E
The Prince Harald Coast ( Norwegian Prins Harald Kyst ) is part of the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It includes the Lützow-Holm-Bucht and extends from its eastern entrance to the Riiser-Larsen peninsula on 34 ° east longitude. The Princess Ragnhild Coast connects to the west and the Crown Prince Olav Coast to the east .
It was discovered on February 4, 1937 on a flight by Viggo Wideroe, Nils Romnaes and Ingrid Christensen during the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936/37 and named after Harald (* 1937), the son of the then Norwegian Crown Prince Olav .
1973 Norway restricted the name Prins Harald Kyst to the western part of the coast up to the Shirase Glacier ; for the eastern part it took over the Japanese name Soya Coast .
Individual evidence
- ^ Prince Harald Coast in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed April 15, 2020
- ↑ Prins Harald Kyst in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on April 15, 2020
Web links
- Prince Harald Coast on geographic.org (English)