Chan Rocks
| Chan Rocks | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Outback Nunatakker , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ O | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Chan Rocks are a group of rocks in Victoria Land, East Antarctica . They rise along an ice cliff 8 km southeast of Miller Butte in the group of the Outback Nunatakker .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using their own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1970 after Lian Chan, laboratory administrator at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1968.
Web links
- Chan Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chan Rocks on geographic.org (English)