Grim skirt
| Grim skirt | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 23 ′ S , 64 ° 29 ′ W | |
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The Grim Rock (from English grim , 'grim, gloomy, desolate' ) is a reef rock washed over by the sea in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Grandidier Canal it is located 5 km south-southeast of the Gedges Rocks and 16 km west-northwest of Cape Pérez .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill discovered him and named him descriptively after his appearance.
Web links
- Grim rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Grim Rock on geographic.org (English)