Hauken Rock
| Hauken Rock | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 0 ′ S , 57 ° 32 ′ W | |
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The Hauken Rock is a cliff rock in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is 1.5 km east of the Ørnen Rocks and 3 km northeast of Cape Melville , the eastern extension of King George Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on 1960 after the Norwegian whaling ship Hauken , which operated between January and February 1906 with the sister ship Ørnen and the factory ship Admiralen in the waters around the South Shetland Islands.
Web links
- Hauken Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hauken Rock on geographic.org (English)