Cetacea Rocks
| Cetacea Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 44 ′ S , 61 ° 37 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Cetacea Rocks are a group of reef rocks off the west coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located northeast of Hoseason Island in the Palmer Archipelago .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910), led by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot, mapped these rocks. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1960 after the mammalian order Cetacea (whales), as the rocks are in one of the main distribution areas of whales in Antarctic waters.
Web links
- Cetacea Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cetacea Rocks on geographic.org (English)