Gervaize Rocks
| Gervaize Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 20 ′ S , 58 ° 7 ′ W | |
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The Gervaize Rocks are a group of reef rocks off the northwest coast of the Trinity Peninsula at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located 5 km north-northeast of Cape Ducorps .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them based on surveys carried out between 1960 and 1961. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after Charles François Eugène Gervaize (1814–1895), officer on board the Astrolabe in the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837–1840) under the direction of polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville .
Web links
- Gervaize Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gervaize Rocks on geographic.org (English)