Rymill coast

Rymill coast
	Rymill Coast in the southwest of the map
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Waters	George VI Sound , Bellingshausen Lake
north	Cape Jeremy ; 69 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 68 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ W.
south	Buttress nunatakker ; 72 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ W

-71 -67.5Coordinates: 71 ° S , 68 ° W

The Rymill Coast is a stretch of coast in the west of the Antarctic Peninsula , which lies between Cape Jeremy and the Buttress Nunatakkern in Palmerland . The Fallières coast connects to the east and north , and the English coast to the south and west .

Parts of the coast were photographed by the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth during an overflight on November 23, 1935. Further aerial photographs and first geodetic surveys followed during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) between October and November 1936. Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) and the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1948–1950 ) took further measurements in 1940 ) in front. During the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) in 1947 and by the United States Navy in 1966, aerial photographs of the coast were made. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1985 after the Australian polar explorer John Rymill (1905–1968), who led the British Grahamland Expedition.

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