Caird Coast

noun

1. a coastal region in Antarctica, E of the Weddell Sea, 23° to 29° W longitude.

Caird Coast

/ kɛəd /

noun

1. a region of Antarctica: a part of Coats Land on the SE coast of the Weddell Sea; now included in the British Antarctic Territory (claim suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959)

Example Sentences

Mr Francis wrote the book while working as base camp doctor at the Halley research station on the Caird coast.

From BBC

The two hundred miles of new coast-line I have called Caird Coast.

From Project Gutenberg

Caird Coast, as I have named it, connects Coats’ Land, discovered by Bruce in 1904, with Luitpold Land, discovered by Filchner in 1912.

From Project Gutenberg

At this southern end of the Caird Coast the ice-sheet, undulating over the hidden and imprisoned land, is bursting down a steep slope in tremendous glaciers, bristling with ridges and spikes of ice and seamed by thousands of crevasses.

From Project Gutenberg