Ruppert coast
| Ruppert coast | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Waters | Southern Ocean (Pacific part) | |
| From |
Brennan Point 76 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 146 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ W. |
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| To |
Cape Burks 74 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 136 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ W. |
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Coordinates: 76 ° S , 141 ° W
The Ruppert Coast is a stretch of coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land , which lies between Brennan Point and Cape Burks .
The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd named the coast after the entrepreneur Jacob Ruppert (1867-1939), then owner of the baseball team of the New York Yankees and supporter of his second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935), in which Byrd flew over this stretch of coast. The United States Geological Survey mapped the coast using the United States Navy's own measurements and aerial photographs between 1959 and 1965.
Web links
- Ruppert Coast in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ruppert Coast on geographic.org (English)