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The Bowman Coast is the portion of the east coast of the
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical Analysis of Satellite Radar Altimeter Data
', PP 114, 168 * A. P. Crary, L. M. Gould, E. O. Hulburt, Hugh Odishow, Waldo E. Smith, editors,
Antarctica in the International Geophysical Year
', P 53
The Bowman Coast is the portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.
...
between Cape Northrop
Cape Northrop is a conspicuous, rocky bluff which rises to 1,160 m, forming the north side of the entrance to Whirlwind Inlet, on the east coast of Graham Land, the northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, and dividing Foyn Coast and Bowman ...
and Cape Agassiz
The Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula() is an ice-covered spur from the main mountain mass of the Antarctic Peninsula.
It projects over in a northeasterly arc from its base between Mobiloil Inlet and Casey Inlet.
Location
The Hollick-Kenyon Peninsul ...
. It was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins
Sir George Hubert Wilkins MC & Bar (31 October 188830 November 1958), commonly referred to as Captain Wilkins, was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer. He was awarded the Military Cross aft ...
in an aerial flight of 20 December 1928. It was named by Wilkins for Isaiah Bowman
Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. (December 26, 1878 – January 6, 1950), was an American geographer and President of the Johns Hopkins University, 1935–1948, controversial for his antisemitism and inaction in Jewish resettlement during World War ...
, then Director of the American Geographical Society
The American Geographical Society (AGS) is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City. Most fellows of the society are United States, Americans, but among them have always been a significant number of fellows f ...
.
Maps
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
See also
*Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
Further reading
* Ute Christina Herzfeld,Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical Analysis of Satellite Radar Altimeter Data
', PP 114, 168 * A. P. Crary, L. M. Gould, E. O. Hulburt, Hugh Odishow, Waldo E. Smith, editors,
Antarctica in the International Geophysical Year
', P 53
External links
* Coasts of Graham Land Geography of the British Antarctic Territory {{BowmanCoast-geo-stub