Davis Coast
Davis Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the English-born American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of Antarctica at Hughes Bay on this coast in the Cecilia, February 7, 1821.Places of Interest
Highlights include Volov Peak.
Volov Peak
Peak
Lanchester Bay is a bay 7 nautical miles wide lying east of Havilland Point, along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Volov Peak is situated 4 km northeast of Davis Coast.
Davis Coast
- Type: Shore
- Description: antarctic coast of northern Antarctic peninsula
- Categories: coast and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
Discover Davis Coast from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Davis Coast” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Palmer kostaldea”
- Bulgarian: “Бряг Дейвис”
- Cebuano: “Palmer (lapyahan)”
- Cebuano: “Palmer”
- Chinese: “戴維斯海岸”
- Dutch: “Davis Coast”
- German: “Davis-Küste”
- Hebrew: “חוף דיוויס”
- Hebrew: “חוף דייוויס”
- Italian: “costa di Davis”
- Italian: “Costa di Davis”
- Latvian: “Costa Palmer”
- Latvian: “Davis Coast”
- Latvian: “Deivisa krasts”
- Latvian: “Pālmera krasts”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Costa del Presidente González Videla”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Davis Coast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Daviskysten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palmer Coast”
- Polish: “Davis Coast”
- Polish: “Wybrzeże Davisa”
- Portuguese: “Costa de Davis”
- Spanish: “Costa Davis”
- Spanish: “Costa de Palmer”
- Spanish: “Costa Palmer”
- Spanish: “Palmer, Costa de”
- Spanish: “Palmer, costa”
- Swedish: “Davis Coast”
- Swedish: “Palmer (strand)”
- Ukrainian: “Берег Девіса”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Temple Glacier and Chanute Peak.
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