Acorn rock
| Acorn rock | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Archipelago | Willis Islands , South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 0 ′ S , 38 ° 14 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 20 m | |
The Acorn skirt (from English acorn , acorn ' ) is a 20 m high cliff before the western end of South Georgia . In the group of the Willis Islands , the rock juts out of the South Atlantic 550 m northwest of Main Island .
The crew of the British research ship HMS Owen , who worked in the area between 1960 and 1961, gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Acorn rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Acorn Rock on geographic.org (English)