Hillary Coast

The Hillary Coast is a 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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79°20′S 161°0′E / 79.333°S 161.000°E / -79.333; 161.000This Ross Dependency location article is a stub.

Location of the Hillary Coast (marked in orange) within the Ross Dependency .