Breakwater Rocks
| Breakwater Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Boat Harbor | |
| archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 12 ′ S , 36 ° 35 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Breakwater Rocks (from English breakwater , breakwater , groyne ' ) are a group of reef rocks off the north coast of South Georgia . They extend over the southern part of the entrance to Boat Harbor in Jason Harbor .
The group probably received the name The Breakwater when surveying Jason Harbor in 1929 by Lieutenant Commander John M. Chaplin (1888–1977) of the Royal Navy , head of the hydrographic survey team on South Georgia from 1928 to 1930. The UK Antarctic Place- Names Committee made an adjustment to this designation in 1957 after measurements by the South Georgia Survey between 1956 and 1957 showed that the rocks were not linear, but arranged in a group.
Web links
- Breakwater Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Breakwater Rocks on geographic.org (English)