Guyer skirt
| Guyer skirt | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 33 ′ S , 69 ° 1 ′ W | |
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The Guyer Rock is a low cliff in Marguerite Bay off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 16 miles west of Flyspot Rocks .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1986 after Lieutenant Simon Thomas Glade Guyer (* 1964) of the Royal Navy , officer on board the HMS Endurance , who ran aground on these rocks during an Antarctic voyage between 1985 and 1986.
Web links
- Guyer Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Guyer Rock on geographic.org (English)