Departure Rocks
| Departure Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay , Southern Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 37 ′ S , 62 ° 49 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 4th | |
The Departure Rocks (basically translated from English departure rocks ) are four precipitous cliffs before Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . In Holme Bay they are 1.5 km northwest north of Peake-Jones Rock .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them so because teams on the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions passed these rocks over the sea ice on their way to Mawson Station to the west .
Web links
- Departure Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Departure Rocks on geographic.org (English)