Soya coast
Map with all coordinates: | Soya coast Sôya Kaigan ( 宗 谷 海岸 ), Sôyakysten
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| location | Prince Harald Coast , Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Waters | Lützow-Holm-Bucht | |
| Northeast |
Flattunga 68 ° 51 '0 " S , 40 ° 0' 0" O |
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| southwest |
Shirase Glacier 70 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 38 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E |
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Coordinates: 69 ° 20 ′ S , 39 ° 45 ′ E
Sōya coast ( Japanese 宗 谷 海岸 Sôya Kaigan ; Norwegian Sôyakysten ; English Sôya Coast ) is the name of the coast of the Lützow-Holm Bay in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land between the glacier tongue Flattunga and the Shirase (belonging to the Crown Prince Olav coast ) Glacier or the western end of the Skallevikhalsen range of hills ⊙ . It is therefore the eastern part of the Prince Harald Coast in the broader sense.
Equipped with Norwegian maps based on aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936/37 , the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) carried out detailed surveying work on this stretch of coast from 1957 and named it after the research vessel Sōya , which in turn was named after the sub-prefecture of Sōya is named.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Sôya Kaigan in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on April 14, 2020
- ↑ a b c d Sôyakysten in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on April 14, 2020
- ↑ Sôya Coast (RUS) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on April 14, 2020
- ↑ a b c Sôyakysten in the directory of the Norwegian Polar Institute, accessed April 14, 2020