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Kemp Land is a thin sliver of Antarctica including, and lying inland from, the Kemp Coast. Part of the Australian Antarctic claim, it is defined as lying between 56° 25' E and 59° 34' E, and, as with other sectors of the Antarctic, is deemed being limited by the 60° S parallel. It is bounded in the east by Mac. Robertson Land and in the west by
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Mawson's Last Survivor: The Story of Dr Alf Howard
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Kemp Land is a thin sliver of Antarctica including, and lying inland from, the Kemp Coast. Part of the Australian Antarctic claim, it is defined as lying between 56° 25' E and 59° 34' E, and, as with other sectors of the Antarctic, is deemed being limited by the 60° S parallel. It is bounded in the east by Mac. Robertson Land and in the west by Enderby Land
Enderby Land is a projecting landmass of Antarctica. Its shore extends from Shinnan Glacier at about to William Scoresby Bay at , approximately of the earth's longitude (planets), longitude. It was first documented in western and eastern liter ...
. Kemp Land includes one major group of islands, the Øygarden Group.Kemp Landon
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It reaches a height of 3,346 feet above sea level
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Exploration
Named after Peter Kemp, who, in thebrig
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''Magnet'', is reported to have sighted land in 1833. In 1930, BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was a British-born Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during ...
in the ''Discovery'' delineated the coastline from the junction with Enderby Land to that with Mac. Robertson Land. In 1936 the coast was recharted by RRS ''William Scoresby''.
See also
* List of glaciers of Kemp LandFurther reading
* Anna Bemrose,Mawson's Last Survivor: The Story of Dr Alf Howard
', PP 3, 82, 89
References
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SCAR
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