Gaviotín rock
| Gaviotín rock | ||
|---|---|---|
| Waters | Larsen Canal | |
| Archipelago | Joinville Islands ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 8 ′ S , 56 ° 3 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Gaviotín Rock ( Spanish Islote Gaviotín , in the United Kingdom Gull Rock ) is a cliff rock of the Joinville Islands off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 400 m from the coastal ice cliffs of Joinville Island in the Larsen Canal .
The name of the rock was first recorded on an Argentine map from 1957. The translation made by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1964 is incorrectly based on the Spanish gaviota for seagull ( English gull ), while gaviotín is a common term in Argentina for the common tern . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names therefore translated the name into English in 1965 in a more direct form.
Web links
- Gaviotín Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gaviotín Rock 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 , p. 611 (English)