Green Rocks
| Green Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| archipelago | Swain Islands ( Windmill Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 14 ′ S , 110 ° 38 ′ E | |
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The Green Rocks are a small group of reef rocks in the Windmill Islands archipelago off the Budd coast of East Antarctica's Wilkesland . They are located 400 m east of Honkala Island and just as far from the mainland coast in the eastern section of the group of Swain Islands .
They were first mapped using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). In 1957, scientists at Wilkes Station under the direction of the US polar geographer Carl Robert Eklund (1909–1962) carried out a survey. Eklund named it after Sydney E. Green, a member of a unit of the United States Navy in support of the winter crew at Wilkes Station in the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958).
Web links
- Green Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Green Rocks on geographic.org (English)