Clerke Rocks

Clerke Rocks
	Clarck's Rock on the map by Heinrich Klutschak (1881)
Waters	South Atlantic
archipelago	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Geographical location	55 ° 1 ′ S , 34 ° 42 ′ W Coordinates: 55 ° 1 ′ S , 34 ° 42 ′ W
Number of islands	15th
Residents	uninhabited
	Clerke Rocks on the map by James Cook (1777, north is below)

The Clerke Rocks are a group of 15 small rocky islands in the South Atlantic . They are located about 74 km southeast of the southern tip of South Georgia , extend from west to east over a length of 11 km and reach a height of up to 240 m . The rocks are uninhabited and politically belong to the British overseas territory " South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ", but are also claimed by Argentina .

Part of the Clerke Rocks is the subgroup The Office Boys in the northeast.

The islands were discovered on January 23, 1775 on James Cook's second voyage to the South Seas by Charles Clerke (1741–1779), the commander of the Resolution , and named after him.

The rocks are granite .

Web links

Official Website of the South Georgia (English)
Page about the Clerke Rocks ( Memento of February 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)

Individual evidence

↑ Captain Cook Society, Cook's Log, January - March 1775 (English)
^ PF Barker and DH Griffiths: The Evolution of the Scotia Ridge and Scotia Sea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 271, No. 1213, A Discussion on Volcanism and the Structure of the Earth (January 27, 1972), pp. 151-183, here p. 158

[1] Captain Cook Society, Cook's Log, January - March 1775 (English)

[2] PF Barker and DH Griffiths: The Evolution of the Scotia Ridge and Scotia Sea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 271, No. 1213, A Discussion on Volcanism and the Structure of the Earth (January 27, 1972), pp. 151-183, here p. 158