Gertrude Rock
| Gertrude Rock | ||
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| Waters | Somow lake | |
| Archipelago | formerly The Sisters | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 17 ′ S , 170 ° 13 ′ E | |
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The Gertrude Rock was a cliff in front of Cape Adare , the northern tip of the Adare Peninsula in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It belonged together with the Rose Rock to the group of cliff rocks known as The Sisters . It broke up between 2003 and 2006 and sank into the sea.
The naming of this rock and the Rose Rock was made by Victor Campbell , leader of the northern group in the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913), at the suggestion of George Murray Levick . It was named after two sisters of the same name from a song that was popular at the time.
Web links
- Gertrude Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gertrude Rock on geographic.org (English)