Siple Coast
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Siple Coast is the middle portion of the relatively ill-defined coast along the east side of the Ross Ice Shelf
, between the north end of Gould Coast
(83°30′S 153°00′W) and the south end of Shirase Coast
(80°10′S 151°00′W). The area was originally called Kirton Coast, but was renamed by NZ-APC in 1961 after Paul A. Siple, a noted American scientist-explorer accompanied R. Admiral Richard E. Byrd on all of his Antarctic expeditions.
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 metres high above the water surface...
, between the north end of Gould Coast
Gould Coast
The Gould Coast is that portion of the coast along the east margin of the Ross Ice Shelf between the west side of Scott Glacier and the south end of Siple Coast . Named by NZ-APC in 1961 for Laurence M. Gould, a geologist who was second-in-command of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30. Gould...
(83°30′S 153°00′W) and the south end of Shirase Coast
Shirase Coast
Shirase Coast is the north segment of the relatively ill-defined coast along the east side of Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Sea, lying between the north end of Siple Coast and Cape Colbeck. Named by NZ-APC in 1961 after Lieutenant Nobu Shirase , leader of the Japanese expedition, whose ship Kainan Maru...
(80°10′S 151°00′W). The area was originally called Kirton Coast, but was renamed by NZ-APC in 1961 after Paul A. Siple, a noted American scientist-explorer accompanied R. Admiral Richard E. Byrd on all of his Antarctic expeditions.