Corry Rocks
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| location | Gillock Island ( Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 20 ′ S , 71 ° 41 ′ E | |
The Corry Rocks ( Russian Нунатаки Бугры Nunataki Bugry , German 'Hügelnunatakker' ) are a group of rocks on the northern foothills of the island of Gillock Island in the Amery Ice Shelf off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land .
One of these rocks was the location of a surveying station as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1968 . It is named after Maxwell John Corry (* 1940), head of this research campaign and in the same year involved in surveying the Amery Ice Shelf.
Web links
- Corry Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Corry Rocks on geographic.org (English)