Frost Rocks
| Frost Rocks | ||
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| Waters | French passage | |
| archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 16 ′ S , 64 ° 20 ′ W | |
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The Frost Rocks are a group of cliff rocks off the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Wilhelm Archipelago , they lie southwest of the southern Argentine Islands and 800 m southwest of the Whiting Rocks .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1971 after Richard Frost (* 1946), surveyor assistant for the hydrographic unit on board the HMS Endurance in this area in February 1969.
Web links
- Frost Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Frost Rocks on geographic.org (English)