Drum rock
| Drum rock | ||
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| Waters | French passage | |
| Archipelago | Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 14 ′ S , 64 ° 16 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 6 m | |
The Drum Rock (from English drum 'drum, barrel' ) is a 6 m high cliff in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Argentine Islands , it lies between Smooth Island and Grotto Island on the eastern edge of the Forge Islands .
Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey at Faraday Station gave the rock its descriptive name in the 1980s.
Web links
- Drum Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Drum Rock on geographic.org (English)