Wilkins Coast

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Wilkins Coast
Location of the Wilkins Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula
Location of the Wilkins Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula
Wilkins Coast (Antarctic Peninsula)
Cape Agassiz
Cape Boggs
location Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Waters Weddell Sea
From Cape Agassiz
68 ° 26 ′ 6.4 ″  S , 62 ° 50 ′ 58.9 ″  W.
To Cape Boggs
70 ° 33 ′ 3.2 ″  S , 61 ° 21 ′ 53.6 ″  W.

Coordinates: 70 °  S , 63 °  W

The Wilkins Coast is a stretch of coast in the east of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Palmerland it lies between Cape Agassiz and Cape Boggs . The Bowman Coast connects to the north and the Black Coast to the south .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1953 after the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958), who flew over the Antarctic Peninsula from west to east on December 20, 1928 with a Lockheed Vega from Deception Island and over the Stefansson Strait and the Hearst Island , both of which are halfway off the Wilkins coast.

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