Institute Geologii Arktiki Rocks
| Institute Geologii Arktiki Rocks | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 56 ′ S , 11 ° 30 ′ E | |
The Instituta Geologii Arktiki Rocks ( Russian Скалы Института Геологии Арктики Skaly Instituta Geologii Arktiki , German , “Rocks of the Institute for Geology of the Arctic” ) are a group of scattered rocky outcrops near the Princess Astrid coast of the Queen Maudar Arctic . They extend 11 km south of the Schirmacher Oasis in an east-west extension.
Participants in the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of Alfred Ritscher discovered them and photographed them from the air. Norwegian cartographers mapped the rocks using surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Further mapping and naming took place during a Soviet Antarctic expedition carried out from 1960 to 1961. It is named after the Institute for Arctic Geology of the Soviet Union . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the Russian designation in 1970 in a sparse partial translation into English.
Web links
- Instituta Geologii Arktiki Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Instituta Geologii Arktiki Rocks on geographic.org (English)