Bernard Rocks
| Bernard Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 8 ′ S , 62 ° 1 ′ W | |
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The Bernard Rocks are a group of cliff rocks in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located on the northeast side of the Brabant Island between Davis Island and Spallanzani Point .
The first mapping took place during the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition under the direction of the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Aerial photographs taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. made between 1956 and 1957, were used for further mapping in 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the French physician Claude Bernard (1813–1878), who made important contributions to the understanding of digestion, the function of the liver and experimental toxicology.
Web links
- Bernard Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bernard Rocks on geographic.org (English)