Hillary Coast
The Hillary Coast is a portion of the coast of Antarctica along the western margin of the Ross Ice Shelf between Minna Bluff and Cape Selborne. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 for Sir Edmund Hillary, the leader of the New Zealand Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1956–58.Hillary Coast
- Shore
- Description: coast in Antarctica
- Categories
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-79.33333° or 79° 20′ south
Longitude
161° east
Open location code
2VG3M282+M2
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Turkish—“Hillary Coast” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hillary Kus”
- Bulgarian: “Бряг Хилари”
- Cebuano: “Hillary Coast”
- Chinese: “希拉里海岸”
- Czech: “Hillaryho pobřeží”
- French: “Côte d’Hillary”
- German: “Hillary-Küste”
- Hebrew: “חוף הילרי”
- Hungarian: “Hillary-part”
- Italian: “costa di Hillary”
- Italian: “Costa di Hillary”
- Latvian: “Hilarija krasts”
- Latvian: “Hillary Coast”
- Macedonian: “Хилариев Брег”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hillary Coast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hillarykysten”
- Polish: “Hillary Coast”
- Spanish: “Costa Hillary”
- Swedish: “Hillary Coast”
- Turkish: “Hillary Sahili”
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