Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Sabrina Coast (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Sabrina Coast (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Coast
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
That portion of the coast of Wilkes Land between Cape Waldron (in about 115 degrees 05' E) and Cape Southard (in about 122 degrees 04' E). John Balleny is reported to have sighted land in about longitude 117 degrees E on 3 March, 1839. BANZARE, under Sir Douglas Mawson, reported an appearance of land about one degree further south than that reported by Balleny. Mawson retained the name Sabrina, after one of Balleny's ships which was lost in a storm in late March, 1839.
Sabrina, after one of Balleny's ships which was lost in a storm in late March, 1839
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