Gobam rock
| Gobam rock | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 41 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Gobamme Rock ( English , Japanese 碁 盤 目 岩 Gobanme-iwa , German ' Go -Brettfeld (er) -Felsen' ; Norwegian Ruteknausen 'Quaderfelsen' ) is a rock formation on the Crown Prince Olav Coast in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises up between the Kozō Rock and the Byōbu Rock .
Participants in the Japanese Antarctic Expedition, which ran from 1957 to 1962, photographed, mapped and named him. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the Japanese name into English in 1968.
Web links
- Gobamme rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gobamme Rock on geographic.org (English)