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Danco Coast
Danco Coast (Costa Danco, Terre de Danco): stretch of the west Antarctic Peninsula coast between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard, explored in 1898 by de Gerlache's Belgian expedition and named for geophysicist Émile Danco, who died aboard the Belgica.
Enderby Land
Enderby Land: Antarctic coastal land mass, East Antarctica, 45°E-55°E; discovered February 1831 by John Biscoe in the Tula, named for Enderby Bros; westernmost Australian Antarctic Territory, Napier Complex geology.
George V Coast
George V Coast, East Antarctic coastal region between Point Alden (142°02′E) and Cape Hudson (153°45′E), named by Mawson's 1911–14 expedition for King George V; home of Mertz and Ninnis glaciers.
Kemp Land
Kemp Land, also called Kemp Coast in US usage, is a coastal region of East Antarctica between Edward VIII Bay and William Scoresby Bay, named for sealing captain Peter Kemp, who sighted it in 1833.
Mac. Robertson Land
Mac. Robertson Land is a sector of East Antarctica at about 70°S, 65°E, discovered and named by Douglas Mawson's 1929-30 BANZARE voyage after patron Macpherson Robertson; it hosts Mawson station, the Prince Charles Mountains, and several Antarctic Specially Protected Areas.
Nordenskjöld Coast
Nordenskjöld Coast, on the east Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather, is named for explorer Otto Nordenskjöld; its outlet glaciers have lost about 4.2 Gt of ice per year since the 1995 Larsen-A ice shelf collapse.
Oscar II Coast
Oscar II Coast, also Kong Oscar II Land, is the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, between Cape Fairweather and Cape Alexander, charted by C. A. Larsen in 1893 and named for King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway.
Palmer Land
Palmer Land: southern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, south of the Cape Jeremy to Cape Agassiz line, named for sealer Nathaniel B. Palmer; defined by the 1964 US-UK naming agreement, holds most of the peninsula's ice.
Princess Astrid Coast
Princess Astrid Coast (Prinsesse Astrid Kyst), part of Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica, between 5 and 20 degrees E; ice-shelf-bordered coast discovered March 1931 by Capt. H. Halvorsen and named for Princess Astrid of Norway.