Cape-Pigeon Rocks
| Cape-Pigeon Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Watt Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 59 ′ S , 143 ° 47 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
The Cape-Pigeon Rocks are twin cliffs off the East Antarctic George V coast . They are 5 km south of Garnet Point on the west side of Watt Bay .
Participants of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered and named them. It is named after a breeding colony of Cape petrels located here ( English cape pigeon ). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names added a hyphen to the name in 1952 to avoid confusion between the actual nature of the geographical object and a cape .
Web links
- Cape-Pigeon Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cape-Pigeon Rocks on geographic.org (English)