Blake Rock

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Blake Rock
height 1595  m
location Queen Elizabeth Land
Mountains Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains
Coordinates 85 ° 10 ′ 59 ″  S , 64 ° 49 ′ 59 ″  W Coordinates: 85 ° 10 ′ 59 ″  S , 64 ° 49 ′ 59 ″  W
Blake Rock (Antarctica)
Blake Rock
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Blake skirt is a 1,595  m high and isolated rock formation in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . It rises 8 km south of the southern end of the Mackin Table in the Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Joseph Albert Blake Jr. (1935–2012), construction electrician on the Amundsen- Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1960.

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