Boutan Rocks
| Boutan Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 55 ′ S , 63 ° 9 ′ W | |
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The Boutan Rocks are a small group of reef rocks off the Danco coast of West Antarctic Graham Land . They are 2.5 km southwest of Bruce Island .
The archipelago is first listed on an Argentine map from 1954, unnamed. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the French naturalist Louis Boutan (1859-1934), a pioneer of underwater photography .
Web links
- Boutan Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boutan Rocks on geographic.org (English)