Location of the Hillary Coast (marked in orange) within the Ross Dependency.

The Hillary Coast is a portion of the coast of Antarctica along the western margin of the Ross Ice Shelf between Minna Bluff and Cape Selborne. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 for Sir Edmund Hillary, the leader of the New Zealand Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1956–58. Various New Zealand parties carried out detailed surveys of portions of this coast and pioneered routes up Skelton Glacier and Darwin Glacier to the polar plateau.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Hillary Coast". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 17 June 2012.

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79°20′S 161°0′E / 79.333°S 161.000°E / -79.333; 161.000

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