Hall Rock
| Hall Rock | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Hall rock is a large rock formation in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . The rock rises 3 km northwest of the Carapace Nunataks on the edge of the polar plateau .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1971 after the geologist Bradford Allyn Hall (1933-2016) from the University of Maine , who was involved between 1968 and 1969 in the exploration of the so-called Mawson - Tillits in the vicinity of this rock.
Web links
- Hall rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hall Rock on geographic.org (English)