Shackleton Coast

Shackleton Coast is that portion of the coast along the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf between Cape Selborne and Airdrop Peak at the east side of Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1961 after Sir Ernest Shackleton. 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 to the Beardmore Glacier, and was the first to find a practicable route to the South Pole. Lack of food stopped him 97 miles (180 km) from his goal.

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

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

• Shackleton Coast on USGS website
• Shackleton Coast on the Antarctica New Zealand Digital Asset Manager website
• Shackleton Coast on SCAR website
• Shackleton Coast area satellite image
• Shackleton Coast on "oldmapsonline"

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Shackleton Coast". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)