Coats Land (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Coats Land (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Land (1)
This name originates from Norway. It is part of the Norway Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
The part of Antarctica which lies W-ward of Dronning Maud Land and forms the E shore of Weddell Sea, extending in a general NE-SE direction between 20° 00' W and 36° 00' W. After James Coats, Jr., and Maj. Andrew Coats, the two chief supporters of the Scottish National Antarctic expedition, 1902-04. In December 1914 and January 1915, Ernest Shackleton in the Endurance continued the exploration southward, joining Bruce's discovery to land which Wilhelm Filchner had discovered from the Deutschland in 1912.
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