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Hillary Coast
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Hillary Coast
The
Hillary Coast
is that 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. Various New Zealand parties carried out detailed surveys of portions of this coast and pioneered routes up
Skelton Glacier
and
Darwin Glacier
to the polar plateau.
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