Mountain rock
| Mountain rock | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 10 ′ S , 64 ° 58 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 6 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Bergel rock is a rock in front of the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 6 m above sea level and is 1.4 km south of Quintana Island in the southwestern Wilhelm Archipelago .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on November 3, 1971 after Alexandra Mary Swinford Shackleton (* 1940, married Bergel), granddaughter of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton or daughter of his son Edward Shackleton and sponsor of the research vessel HMS Endurance , which was launched in February 1969 was on the way to survey work in the waters around this rock.
Web links
- Bergel rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bergel Rock on geographic.org (English)