Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Borchgrevink Coast (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Borchgrevink Coast (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Coast (7)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
That portion of the coast of Victoria Land between Cape Adare and Cape Washington. The name was recommended by NZ-APC in 1961 after Carstens E. Borchgrevink, a member of H.J. Bull's expedition to this area, 1894-95, and leader of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900, the first to winter on the continent, at Cape Adare.
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