Bell Rock
| Bell Rock | ||
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| height | 1200 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 36 '49 " S , 66 ° 20' 20" W | |
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The Bell Rock is a distinctive, isolated and 1,200 m high Nunatak of Palmer Lands south of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 20 km east of Mount Ward in the middle of the Goodenough Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the British geologist Charles Michael Bell (* 1943), who worked for the British Antarctic Survey on Fossil Bluff between 1968 and 1971 .
Web links
- Bell Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bell Rock on geographic.org (English)