Gaunt Rocks
| Gaunt Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 17 ′ S , 64 ° 19 ′ W | |
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The Gaunt Rocks (of English gaunt , barren, desolate, eerie ' ) are a small group of cliff rocks in front of the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Wilhelm Archipelago they are 3 km west of the Barrosfelsen .
It was roughly mapped by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a more detailed mapping based on aerial photographs by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. between 1956 and 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee descriptively named them in 1959 for their bleak and unwelcoming appearance.
Web links
- Gaunt Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gaunt Rocks on geographic.org (English)