Davis Coast
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Davis Coast 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
(US-ACAN) 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.
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....
between Cape Kjellman
Cape Kjellman
Cape Kjellman is a cape marking the east side of the entrance to Charcot Bay, on the west side of Trinity Peninsula. First charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Nordenskjold, and named by him probably for Professor Frans Reinhold Kjellman, Swedish botanist....
and Cape Sterneck
Cape Sterneck
Cape Sterneck is a bold, black cliff on a projecting point of Chavdar Peninsula forming the north side of the entrance to Hughes Bay, on the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula...
. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...
(US-ACAN) for Captain John Davis
John Davis (sealer)
Captain John Davis was a seal hunter from Connecticut, USA who captained men who may have been the first to have set foot on Antarctica on 7 February 1821 shortly after the first sightings of the new continent by Fabian von Bellingshausen, Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, Edward Bransfield and Nathaniel...
, the American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of Antarctica at Hughes Bay
Hughes Bay
Hughes Bay is the 42 km wide bay indenting for 20 km Danco Coast on the west side of Graham Land, Antarctica, lying south of Chavdar Peninsula and north of Pefaur Peninsula, and entered between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray....
on this coast in the Cecilia, February 7, 1821.