Cox Reef
Coordinates: 67 ° 45 ′ S , 69 ° 5 ′ W
The Cox Reef is a reef consisting of dry cliffs northwest of the Box Reef off the southern end of the West Antarctic Adelaide Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1963 in connection with the naming of the neighboring Box Reef in a literary allusion to the farce Box and Cox by the British playwright John Maddison Morton (1811-1891) about two people who alternate between day and night share an apartment without knowing each other.
Web links
- Cox Reef in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cox Reef on geographic.org (English)