Bowman Coast

The Bowman Coast is the portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Northrop and Cape Agassiz. It was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in an aerial flight of December 20, 1928. It was named by Wilkins for Isaiah Bowman, then Director of the American Geographical Society.

Location of Bowman Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula

Maps
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

See also

Further reading
• Ute Christina Herzfeld, Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical Analysis of Satellite Radar Altimeter Data, PP 114, 168
• A. P. Crary, L. M. Gould, E. O. Hulburt, Hugh Odishow, Waldo E. Smith, editors, Antarctica in the International Geophysical Year, P 53


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