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Davis Coast (64°S 60°W) 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 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.

Further reading

• Ute Christina Herzfeld, Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical Analysis of Satellite Radar Altimeter Data, P 115

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Davis Coast". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)

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[it] Costa di Davis

La costa di Davis (centrata alle coordinate .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .latitude,.mw-parser-output .longitude{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .geo{}body.skin-vector .mw-parser-output #coordinates{font-size:85%;line-height:1.5em;position:absolute;right:0;top:0;white-space:nowrap}64°00′S 60°00′W) è una porzione della costa della Terra di Graham, in Antartide. In particolare, la costa di Davis si estende nella parte occidentale della penisola Antartica tra capo Kjellman, a nordest, e capo Sterneck, a sudovest, confinando quindi a nordest con la penisola Trinity e a sudovest con la costa di Danco.[1]

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