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The Danco Coast (64°42′S 62°0′W / 64.700°S 62.000°W / -64.700; -62.000) is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it for Lieutenant Emile Danco who died on the expedition.

The coast is bordered by the Aguirre Passage which separates it from Lemaire Island.

Places on the Danco Coast

• Brabazon Point
• Salvesen Cove

Geology

The Danco Coast Tectonic Block includes the Upper Permian-Triassic Trinity Peninsula Group, consisting of over 1000 m of metaturbidites folded during the Gondwanide orogeny. This group is overlain by the Lower Cretaceous Antarctic Peninsula Volcanic Group, with up to 2000 m of basaltic and andesitic lavas, tuffs and agglomerates, which were folded and faulted during the Tertiary. These two groups were intruded by the Berriasian-Cenomanian granite and gabbro sills of the Andean Instrusive Suite. A system of hypabbysal dykes intruded during the Late Cretaceous or Tertiary.

See also

• Gerlache Strait Geology
• Mount Frödin

Further reading

• R. Casaux, M. L. Bertolin, A. Carlini, Feeding habits of three seal species at the Danco Coast,Antarctica: a re-assessment, Polar Biol (2011) 34:1615–1620, DOI 10.1007/s00300-011-0994-1

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from "Danco Coast". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

1. "Things to do in The Danco Coast - Travel Guides - Holland America Line". destinationguides.hollandamerica.com. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
2.  This article incorporates public domain material from "Aguirre Passage". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
3. Birkenmajer, Krzysztof (1999). The Tectonic Structure of Gerlache Strait, West Antarctica, in Polish Polar Studies XXVI Polar Symposium (PDF). Lublin: Polish Polar Studies. pp. 45–50. Retrieved 3 January 2020.

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West coast	Graham Land Trinity Peninsula Cape Kjellman Davis Coast‎ Cape Sterneck Danco Coast Cape Renard Graham Coast‎ Cape Bellue Loubet Coast Bourgeois Fjord Fallières Coast‎ Cape Jeremy Palmer Land Cape Jeremy Rymill Coast Buttress Nunataks English Coast Eklund Islands Ellsworth Land Eklund Islands English Coast Rydberg Peninsula
East coast	Graham Land Trinity Peninsula Cape Longing Nordenskjöld Coast‎ Cape Fairweather Oscar II Coast‎ Cape Alexander Foyn Coast Cape Northrop Bowman Coast‎ Cape Agassiz Palmer Land Cape Agassiz Wilkins Coast Cape Boggs Black Coast Cape Mackintosh Lassiter Coast Cape Adams Ellsworth Land Cape Adams Orville Coast Cape Zumberge Zumberge Coast Hercules Inlet
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