Baseline skirt
| Baseline skirt | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 36 ′ S , 62 ° 44 ′ E | |
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The Baseline Rock (from English baseline , baseline, baseline ' ) is an isolated reef rock off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson Land . It is located in Holme Bay between the island of Nøstet and the Flat Islands .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it so because it served as one end of a baseline for triangulation measurements by participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1959 .
Web links
- Baseline rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Baseline Rock on geographic.org (English)