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)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Hillary Coast (NZL) | 79° 21' 06.7" S | 160° 29' 34.5" E | Coast |
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Name ID: 113543
Place ID: 6389
That portion of the coast of Victoria Land lying between Minna Bluff on the north to Cape Selborne in the south. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ML07 |
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| Hillary Coast (RUS) | 79° 00' 00.0" S | 160° 00' 00.0" E | Coast |
| Name ID: 118451 Place ID: 6389 | |||
| Hillary Coast (USA) | 79° 20' 00.0" S | 161° 00' 00.0" E | Coast |
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Name ID: 126531
Place ID: 6389
That portion of the coast along the W margin of the Ross Ice Shelf between Minna Bluff and Cape Selborne. Named by NZ-APC in 1961 for Sir Edmund Hillary, leader of the New Zealand Party of the CTAE, 1956-58. Various New Zealand parties carried out detailed surveys of portions of this coast and pioneered routes up the Skelton Glacier and Darwin Glacier to the polar plateau. |
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