Flyspot Rocks
| Flyspot Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 35 ′ S , 68 ° 4 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Flyspot Rocks (translated from English free Caught a rock ) are a group of up to 35 m high clip rock before Fallières Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In Marguerite Bay they are 22 km northwest of the Terra Firma Islands . In contrast to the north, they are icy on their south side.
The first sighting probably goes back to participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot in 1909. Aerial photographs taken on February 1, 1937 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , were used for the first rough mapping. A map that was created in the course of this research trip contains her descriptive name. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out on-site surveys in 1949.
Web links
- Flyspot Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flyspot Rocks on geographic.org (English)