Demas Rocks
| Demas Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| archipelago | Duroch Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 21 ′ S , 58 ° 2 ′ W | |
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The Demas Rocks ( French Rocher Demas ) are a group of reef rocks off the northwest coast of the Trinity Peninsula at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located 5 km northeast of Cape Ducorps not far from Huon Bay .
The French polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered them in March 1838 as part of the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840). He named it in the initially erroneous assumption that it was a single island, after Lieutenant François Edmond Eugène de Barlatier de Mas (1810–1888) from the research vessel Astrolabe . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements in 1946. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee accepted the English translation of the French name, which had been established in 1901, on November 21, 1949.
Web links
- Demas Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Demas Rocks on geographic.org (English)