Wilkins Coast

Wilkins Coast (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Wilkins Coast  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 16055
Name ID: 111944

Feature type: Coast

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

E coast of Graham Land from Cape Agassiz to Cape Boggs, including W shore of Stefansson Sound (q.v.), was in part photographed from the air by Wilkins, 20 December 1928, and later named after him (BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.22; DCS 601 sheets 6862, 6962 and 7062, 1955; DOS 610 sheets W 6862 and 6962, 1963; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981). Sir (George) Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958), Australian polar explorer and pioneer air photographer, was Second-in-Command, 1913-17, of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18 (V. Stefansson), and Second-in-Command in 1920 of BAE, 1920-22 (J. L. Cope); member of the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-22; organizer, with C.B. Eielson (Eielson Peninsula, q.v.) as chief pilot, of flights over the Arctic Ocean from Point Barrow, Alaska, culminating in the flight from there to Svalbard, 15-16 April 1928; Leader, Wilkins-Hearst Antarctic Expedition, 1928-29, with Eielson as pilot; Wilkins Antarctic Expedition, 1929-30, with the DI ship William Scoresby as tender and S.A. Cheesman (Cheesman Island, q.v.) as pilot; Joint Leader with Lincoln Ellsworth of the Nautilus expedition, 1931, for submarine navigation N of Svalbard; Manager of flying operations on Ellsworth's Antarctic expeditions, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36 and 1938-39; organizer, with H. Hollick-Kenyon (Kenyon Peninsula, q.v.) as chief pilot, of flights over the Beaufort Sea in search of six missing Soviet airmen, 1937-38. The whole coast was photographed from the air and roughly surveyed from the ground by USAS, 1940-41; further surveyed by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in November 1947 (Mason, 1950a, p.151). Costa Wilkins (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.727; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.302). Wilkins Kust (Knapp, 1958, p.588). Bereg Uilkinsa (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Costa de Wilkins (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.228). The coast was further photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
69° 40' 00.0" S
-69.66667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
63° 00' 00.0" W
-63.00000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
28-Jan-1953

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