Herdman Rocks
| Herdman Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Scotia Lake | |
| archipelago | South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 41 ′ S , 44 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
The Herdman Rocks are two 15 m high cliffs in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . They rise out of the sea 2.5 km southeast of Hart Rock and 5 km northeast of Cape Dundas from Laurie Island .
The first mapping goes back to the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of Jules Dumont d'Urville . Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations named them after the British hydrologologist and oceanographer Henry Franceys Porter Herdman (1901-1967), who was a member of the scientific committee of this series of expeditions from 1929 to 1949.
Web links
- Herdman Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Herdman Rocks on geographic.org (English)