Box reef
| Box reef | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 46 ′ S , 69 ° 3 ′ W | |
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The Box Reef is a reef consisting of small rock islands between the Esplin Islands and League Rock off the southern end of the West Antarctic Adelaide Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1963 in connection with the naming of the nearby Cox Reef in a literary allusion to the farce Box and Cox by the British playwright John Maddison Morton (1811-1891) about two people who alternate between day and night share an apartment without knowing each other.
Web links
- Box Reef in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Box Reef on geographic.org (English)