Cumbers Reef
| Cumbers Reef | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| archipelago | Amiot Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 34 ′ S , 69 ° 39 ′ W | |
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The Cumbers Reef is a group of reef rocks off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In an arched arrangement, they form the northern and western parts of the Amiot Islands off the coast of the southwestern part of Adelaide Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the reef in 1964 after Roger Neil Cumbers (* 1939), third officer of the research vessel RSS John Biscoe and involved in the mapping of this area in 1963.
Web links
- Cumbers Reef in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cumbers Reef on geographic.org