Bauprés Rocks
| Bauprés Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Peltier channel | |
| archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 54 ′ S , 63 ° 36 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
| Main island | Advent Island | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Bauprés Rocks ( Spanish Rocas Bauprés translated Bugsprietfelsen ) are two rocks off the west coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located in the middle of the southern entrance to the Peltier Canal in the Palmer Archipelago .
They were first mapped during the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Their descriptive name, which they received because of their resemblance to a bowsprit , can be found for the first time on an Argentine map from 1952. A Royal Navy hydrographic surveying unit landed on the larger of the two rocks on the first Sunday of Advent in 1956, and the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it Advent Island in 1959 .
Web links
- Bauprés Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bauprés Rocks on geographic.org (English)