Feature Name (see definition): Amundsen Coast

Feature Class (see definition): Beach

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 375

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 85° 30' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 162° 00' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -85.5

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -162

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1964

Description (see definition): That portion of the coast to the S of the Ross Ice Shelf lying between Morris Peak on the E side of Liv Glacier and the W side of the Scott Glacier. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1961 for Captain Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who led his own expedition in 1910-12 to the Antarctic. Setting up a base at Framheim at the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, he sledged southward across the shelf and discovered a route up the Axel Heiberg Glacier along this coast to reach the polar plateau. He was the first to reach the South Pole, December 14, 1911.

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