Bowler Rocks
| Bowler Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 21 ′ S , 59 ° 50 ′ W | |
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The Bowler Rocks are a group of cliff rocks in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They are located 800 m southwest of Table Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1971 after David Michael Bowler (* 1943), surveying clerk of the hydrographic surveying unit of the Royal Navy , which operated in 1967 on board the Nimrod in the waters around these islands.
Web links
- Bowler Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bowler Rocks on geographic.org (English)