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Shackleton Coast is that portion of the coast along the west side of the
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...
between
Cape Selborne Cape Selborne () is a high snow-covered cape at the south side of Barne Inlet, the terminus of Byrd Glacier at the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered by the ''Discovery'' expedition (1901–1904) and named for William Waldegrave Palmer Se ...
and
Airdrop Peak
Airdrop Peak is a twin- peaked mountain high at the north end of Commonwealth Range, Antarctica. It is the first prominent feature in Ebony Ridge when approached from the northwest. When New Zealand surveyors were making observations from the ...
at the east side of
Beardmore Glacier in
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
. Named by
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board pl ...
(NZ-APC) in 1961 after
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of An ...
. He accompanied Scott on the southern journey during the ''Discovery'' expedition (1901–04) and subsequently led three Antarctic expeditions. On the
British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09), Shackleton discovered the area beyond
Shackleton Inlet The Shackleton Inlet is a reentrant, about 16 km (10 mi) wide, between Cape Wilson and Cape Lyttelton. It is occupied by the terminus of the Nimrod Glacier descending at a low gradient from the bordering highlands to the Ross Ice Shelf.
...
to the
Beardmore Glacier, and was the first to find a practicable route to the
South Pole
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole, Terrestrial South Pole or 90th Parallel South, is one of the two points where Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipod ...
. Lack of food stopped him 97 miles (180 km) from his goal.
Further reading
* Ute Christina Herzfeld,
Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical Analysis of Satellite Radar Altimeter Data', P 243
* Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing,
The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water', PP 162, 427, 709
External links
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USGS
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Shackleton Coaston the Antarctica
New Zealand
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SCAR
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Shackleton Coast area satellite imageShackleton Coaston "oldmapsonline"
References
Coasts of the Ross Dependency
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