Eddystone Rocks (Antarctica)
| Eddystone Rocks | ||
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 Eddystone Rocks (left edge of the map) |
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 36 ′ S , 61 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
The Eddystone Rocks are two cliff rocks in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They are 7 km west southwest of Start Point off the coast of Livingston Island .
The British seal hunter Robert Fildes (1793–1827) mapped and named them on his trip to the South Shetland Islands between 1820 and 1821. It is named after the Eddystone Rocks group southwest of the port city of Plymouth .
Web links
- Eddystone Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eddystone Rocks on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 476-477 (English).