Cheshire rock
| Cheshire rock | ||
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| Waters | English Strait , Southern Ocean | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 22 ′ S , 59 ° 45 ′ W | |
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The Cheshire Rock is a reef rock in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 160 m southeast of Passage Rock in the English Strait, 1 m above sea level.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on November 3, 1971 after Lieutenant Commander Peter John Edward Cheshire (* 1935), head of a hydrographic surveying unit of the Royal Navy , which surveyed the area in 1967.
Web links
- Cheshire rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cheshire Rock on geographic.org (English)