Antarctica

Hillary Coast

The Hillary Coast is a portion of the coast of Antarctica along the western margin of the between and . 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.
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Hillary Coast

Latitude
-79.35185° or 79° 21′ 7″ south
Longitude
160.49293° or 160° 29′ 35″ east
Named after
Edmund Hillary
Open location code
2VG2JFXV+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11047886952
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q4321796
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Swedish—“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”

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