Anchorage patch
| Anchorage patch | ||
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| Waters | Davis Anchorage , Cooperative Lake | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 34 ′ S , 77 ° 55 ′ E | |
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Anchorage Patch (from English anchorage 'anchorage, anchorage' and English patch 'place, spots' ) is a small and isolated reef rock off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located about 11 meters deep in Davis Anchorage Bay at a distance of 800 meters northwest of Torckler Rocks .
It was discovered in 1961 by the Australian geodesist Thomas Gale (* 1911) during one of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) descriptively named the shoal on July 4, 1961.
Web links
- Anchorage patch in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Anchorage Patch on geographic.org (English)