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)
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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