Babel rock
| Babel rock | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 53 ′ S , 61 ° 24 ′ W | |
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The Babel rock is the northernmost of a small group of Rifffelsen before the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Palmer Archipelago , these are north of Intercurrence Island .
The British navigator James Hoseason , first mate on the Antarctic voyage of the sealer Sprightly (1824–1825), mapped two of these rocks in 1824 and named them Penguin Islands , as a penguin colony is located here. However, this naming did not prevail, as numerous other objects also have corresponding names. On September 23, 1960, the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey gave the object described here its current name, alluding to the utterances of the penguins, which are reminiscent of the proverbial Babylonian confusion of language .
Web links
- Babel rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Babel Rock on geographic.org (English)