Boyer Rocks
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| Waters | Bone Bay | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 35 ′ S , 59 ° 2 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Boyer Rocks are a small group of reef rocks off the west coast of the Trinity Peninsula in northern Graham Land of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located 5 km southwest of Cape Roquemaurel in the northeast corner of Bone Bay .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them based on their own measurements between 1960 and 1961. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them after Joseph Emmanuel Prosper Boyer (1815-1886), officer on the Astrolabe in the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville .
Web links
- Boyer Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boyer Rocks on geographic.org (English)