William Speirs Bruce
Scottish explorer
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discovery of Coats Land
- In Coats Land
…1904 by the Scottish explorer William Speirs Bruce while on an investigation of the Weddell Sea and was named for the expedition’s backers. The site of a British research station, it is claimed in part by Norway (eastern sector), the United Kingdom (central sector), and Argentina (western sector).
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exploration of Weddell Sea
- In Weddell Sea
…until 1903 and 1904 when William S. Bruce in the ship Scotia, of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902–04), undertook the first oceanographic exploration of the Weddell Sea. Luitpold Coast of western Coats Land was charted by the Deutschland on the German South Polar Expedition of 1910–12 under Wilhelm Filchner,…
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