Jebsen Rocks
| Jebsen Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| archipelago | South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 42 ′ S , 45 ° 40 ′ W | |
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The Jebsen Rocks are a series of cliff rocks in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . They are distributed over a length of 800 m in an east-west extension 800 m north of Jebsen Point off the west coast of Signy Island .
The Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle mapped it between 1912 and 1913. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations surveyed and named it in 1933. They named the rocks based on the name of Jebsen Point. Its namesake are probably Bernhard and Wilhelm Jebsen, whaling entrepreneurs from Bergen , Norway , whose ship Tioga sank not far from this headland in 1913.
Web links
- Jebsen Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jebsen Rocks on geographic.org (English)