Baffle skirt
| Baffle skirt | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 12 ′ S , 67 ° 5 ′ W | |
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The baffle skirt (of English baffle , deflector, baffle ' ) is a small, barely protruding above the sea surface Rifffelsen before Fallières coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in Marguerite Bay 1 km northwest of the western tip of Neny Island in the middle of a deep - sea channel reaching to Stonington Island .
The rock was measured and named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 . It is named after the fact that this reef rock makes it difficult for ships to get to Stonington Island.
Web links
- Baffle rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Baffle Rock on geographic.org (English)