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.
2-745: The coast is bordered by the Aguirre Passage which separates it from Lemaire Island . 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
4-633: 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 . This Danco Coast location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Aguirre Passage Too Many Requests If you report this error to
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