Borchgrevink Coast
The Borchgrevink Coast is a portion of the Victoria Land coastline between Cape Adare and Cape Washington. The name was recommended by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 after Carsten Borchgrevink, a member of Henrik Johan Bull's expedition to this area, 1894–95, and leader of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, the first to winter on the continent, at Cape Adare.
- Type: Shore
- Description: portion of coast of Antarctica
- Also known as: “Costa de Borchgrevink”
Borchgrevink Coast
- Categories: coast and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-73° or 73° south
Longitude
168.5° or 168° 30′ east
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
Open location code
2VVC2G22+22
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Borchgrevink Coast” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Бряг Борхгревинк”
- Cebuano: “Borchgrevink Coast”
- Chinese: “博克格雷溫克海岸”
- French: “Côte de Borchgrevink”
- Georgian: “ბორხგრევინკის ნაპირი”
- German: “Borchgrevink-Küste”
- Hebrew: “חוף בורכגרווינק”
- Hebrew: “חוף בורשקרווינק”
- Italian: “costa di Borchgrevink”
- Italian: “Costa di Borchgrevink”
- Latvian: “Borkgrevinka krasts”
- Macedonian: “Борхгревинков Брег”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Borchgrevinkkysten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Borchgrevink Coast”
- Norwegian: “Borchgrevinkkysten”
- Polish: “Wybrzeże Borchgrevinka”
- Slovenian: “Borchgrevinkova obala”
- Spanish: “Costa Borchgrevink”
- Swedish: “Borchgrevink Coast”
- Turkish: “Borchgrevink Sahili”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Narrow Neck.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Borchgrevink Glacier and Prior, Mount.
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