Fortress Rocks
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 51 ′ S , 166 ° 41 ′ E | |
The Fortress Rocks (English for fortress rocks ) are a group of low rocky outcrops on the Antarctic Ross Island . They rise half a mile north of the summit of Observation Hill on the Hut Point Peninsula .
The descriptive naming was made by participants of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Fortress Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fortress Rocks on geographic.org (English)