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)
Siple Coast (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Siple 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:
The middle portion of the relatively ill-defined coast along the E side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between the N end of Gould Coast (8330S, 15300W) and the S end of Shirase Coast (8010S, 15100W). Named by NZ-APC in 1961 after Paul A. Siple (Mount Siple, q.v.), noted American scientist-explorer who accompanied R. Admiral Richard E. Byrd on all his Antarctic expeditions.
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