Austin Rocks
| Austin Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 27 ′ S , 61 ° 5 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Austin Rocks are a group of Antarctic reef rocks . They extend over a length of 5 km in a northeast-southwest orientation in the Bransfield Strait at a distance of 21 km northwest of the west coast of the Trinity Peninsula .
They were mapped during the expedition with the sloop Chanticleer under Commander Henry Foster, which lasted from 1828 to 1831 . It is named after Horatio Thomas Austin (1801–1865), an officer on this research expedition.
Web links
- Austin Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Austin Rocks on geographic.org (English)