Child Rocks
| Child Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| archipelago | Robinson group | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 26 ′ S , 63 ° 16 ′ E | |
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The Child Rocks ( Norwegian Vestskjera , Western Archipelago ) are a group of small rock islands off the coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They are at the western end of the Robinson group .
Norwegian cartographers, who also named it for the first time, mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) changed its name on February 18, 1958. It is named after John Bonus Child (1904–1953), third officer on board the RRS Discovery in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929–1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson .
Web links
- Child Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Child Rocks on geographic.org (English)