Column rock
| Column rock | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 11 ′ S , 57 ° 20 ′ W | |
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The Column Rock ( English for 'pillar rock'; in Argentina Roca Faro , Spanish for 'lighthouse rock' ) is a cliff off the north coast of the Trinity Peninsula in the north of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.5 km north of Gourdin Island .
The rock got its descriptive name from participants in an Argentine Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1952 to 1953 and on August 12, 1964 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee .
Web links
- Column Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Column Rock on geographic.org (English)