Kane Rocks
| Kane Rocks | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Dominion Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kane Rocks are a 5 km long rock formation in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Dominion Range, they rise in an east-west orientation between the upper sections of the Koski and Vandament glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1966 after Henry Scott Kane, radiation researcher of the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1964 and between 1964 and 1965 and from 1965 to 1966 from there on exploratory marches through the Queen Maud-Land involved.
Web links
- Kane Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kane Rocks on geographic.org (English)