Castor skirt

This article describes the rock in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands. For the rock of the same name in the Mackellar Islands group, see Castor Rock (Mackellar Islands) .

First rock
Waters	South Atlantic
Archipelago	South Sandwich Islands
Geographical location	57 ° 8 ′  S , 26 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 57 ° 8 ′  S , 26 ° 49 ′  W

The Castor Rock is next to the southern Pollux Rock one of two cliffs off the south coast of Vindication Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands .

The crew of the Discovery II named both cliffs in 1930 in the course of surveys as part of the British Discovery Investigations as Castor and Pollux after the brothers Castor and Pollux from Greek mythology. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1971 to split the common naming individually to both cliffs.

Web links

• Castor Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Castor Rock on geographic.org (English)