Barlow Rocks
| Barlow Rocks | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Barlow Rocks are a rock formation in East Antarctica Victoria Land . They rise below the northwestern slopes of Mount Morning on the southern edge of the upper Koettlitz glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after the American cartographer Roger A. Barlow of the United States Geological Survey , who was part of the team at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station that carried out the satellite surveys in the Antarctic winter of 1992 .
Web links
- Barlow Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barlow Rocks on geographic.org (English)