Glover Rocks
| Glover Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 46 ′ S , 68 ° 55 ′ W | |
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The Glover Rocks are a group of cliff rocks in the archipelago of the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located northwest of Avian Island off the southern end of Adelaide Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after John Framcos Glover (* 1940), the third machinist on the research vessel RRS John Biscoe between 1962 and 1963 to support the work of the Royal Navy's hydrographic surveying unit , which this group first mapped in 1963.
Web links
- Glover Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Glover Rocks on geographic.org (English)