Hutton Rocks
| Hutton Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Erebus Bay | |
| archipelago | Ross Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 51 ′ S , 166 ° 37 ′ E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Hutton Rocks are cliff rocks in the Antarctic Ross Archipelago . They are located in Erebus Bay west of the Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island not far from the Hutton Cliffs .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them based on the naming of the neighboring cliffs. It is named after Frederick Wollaston Hutton (1836-1905), curator of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand from 1893 until his death
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 773 (English)
Web links
- Hutton Rocks in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)