Shirase coast
| Shirase coast | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| From | North end of the Siple coast 80 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 151 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W |
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Cape Colbeck 77 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ W. |
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![North end of the Siple coast [1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png){kind=small}
Coordinates: 79 ° S , 156 ° W
The Shirase Coast is the northern stretch of coast east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It lies between the northern end of the Siple coast at 83 ° 30'S, 155 ° 0 'W and Cape Colbeck .
In the section north of 80 ° 10'S there is also the term Prestrud Coast . Elsewhere, the Prestrud Coast is recorded as a name variant of the Shirase Coast .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1961 after the Japanese polar explorer Shirase Nobu (1861-1946), head of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition (1910-1912).
Web links
- Shirase Coast in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shirase Coast on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Siple Coast in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- ↑ Victoria Land Coasts , New Zealand Antarctic Society: Antarctic, A News Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 10 (June 1961), pp. 423 f.
- ^ Gazetteer of the Antarctic: names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names (fourth edition), p. 104