Arktichesky Institute Rocks
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 18 ′ S , 11 ° 27 ′ E | |
The Arctic Institute Rocks ( Russian Скали Арктического Института Skali Arktichesky Instituta ) are a group of rocks in Queen Maud's Antarctic land . They rise up 13 km north of the north-western island mountains on the northwestern foothills of the Wohlthat massif .
They were discovered during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar researcher Alfred Ritscher . The mapping was carried out between 1960 and 1961 by a Soviet Antarctic expedition, which they named after the Arctic Research Institute of the USSR in Leningrad .
Web links
- Arkticheskiy Institute Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Arkticheskiy Institut Rocks on geographic.org (English)