Dufek Coast
The Dufek Coast is a portion of the coast along the southwest margin of the Ross Ice Shelf between Airdrop Peak on the east side of the Beardmore Glacier and Morris Peak on the east side of Liv Glacier.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights include Wilson Portal.
Wilson Portal
Peak
Kosco Glacier is a glacier about 20 nautical miles long, flowing from the Anderson Heights vicinity of the Bush Mountains of Antarctica northward to enter the Ross Ice Shelf between Wilson Portal and Mount Speed. Wilson Portal is situated 4 km north of Dufek Coast.
Dufek Coast
- Type: Shore
- Description: coast in Antarctica
- Categories: coast and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-84.5° or 84° 30′ south
Longitude
-179° or 179° west
Elevation
1,178 metres (3,865 feet)
Open location code
2273G222+22
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Satellite Map
Discover Dufek Coast from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Dufek Coast” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Бряг Дуфек”
- Cebuano: “Dufek Coast”
- Chinese: “杜費克海岸”
- German: “Dufek-Küste”
- Hebrew: “חוף דופק”
- Italian: “costa di Dufek”
- Italian: “Costa di Dufek”
- Latvian: “Dufek Coast”
- Latvian: “Dufek”
- Latvian: “Dufeka krasts”
- Macedonian: “Дафеков Брег”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dufek Coast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dufekkysten”
- Polish: “Dufek Coast”
- Spanish: “Costa Dufek”
- Swedish: “Dufek Coast”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include O’Leary Peak and Kosco Glacier.
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