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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
.
