Basic skirt
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| Waters | Hope Bay | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 24 ′ S , 56 ° 58 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 15 m | |
The Grunden Rock is a 15 m high cliff rock at the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is surrounded by several smaller rocks and lies immediately east of Hut Cove on the south side of the entrance to Hope Bay .
He was discovered by participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named the entire rock group as Grunden Rocks . It is named after Toralf Grunden (1874 – unknown), a member of the Swedish expedition who wintered in Hope Bay in 1903. In 1952, the name was limited to the largest of these rocks after Argentine scientists had erected a beacon on it the previous year .
Web links
- Reasons skirt in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Basic Rock on geographic.org (English)