page_title: Saunders Coast
hierarchical_section_title: Saunders Coast
caption_attribution_description: Ross Ice Shelf and Saunders Coast, Antarctica. Original NASA description: "This pair of true-color images from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) show the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The Ross Ice Shelf straddles the 180 degree longitude line. The imagse from November 11 and 12, 2001, show a bit of Victoria Land at image left, including the TransAntarctic Mountains. A rectangular ice berg is anchored near Ross Island. At center and right is the cast Ross Ice Shelf, and at far right is Saunders Coast."
context_page_description: Saunders Coast is that portion of the coast of Marie Byrd Land between Cape Colbeck and Brennan Point, or between Shirase Coast in the west and Ruppert Coast in the east. It stretches from 158°01'W to 146°31'W. The portion west of 150°W is part of Ross Dependency, while the remaining area is unclaimed by any nation. This coast was explored from the air on December 5, 1929, by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition and was first mapped from aerial photographs obtained on that flight by Capt. Harold E. Saunders, USN, for whom the coast is named. The United States Geological Survey completely mapped the coast from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65.
  Saunders Basin is an undersea basin in the central Ross shelf named in association with Saunders Coast. Name approved 6/88.
context_section_description: Saunders Coast (77°45′S 150°0′W) is that portion of the coast of Marie Byrd Land between Cape Colbeck and Brennan Point, or between Shirase Coast in the west and Ruppert Coast in the east. It stretches from 158°01'W to 146°31'W. The portion west of 150°W is part of Ross Dependency, while the remaining area is unclaimed by any nation. This coast was explored from the air on December 5, 1929, by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–30) and was first mapped from aerial photographs obtained on that flight by Capt. Harold E. Saunders, USN, for whom the coast is named. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) completely mapped the coast from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65.
  Saunders Basin (76°50′S 155°0′W) is an undersea basin in the central Ross shelf named in association with Saunders Coast. Name approved 6/88 (ACUF 228).
   This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Saunders Coast". (content from the Geographic Names Information System) 
caption: Ross Ice Shelf and Saunders Coast, Antarctica.
exif: {}