Kendall Rocks
| Kendall Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 30 ′ S , 59 ° 50 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Kendall Rocks are a group of columnar cliffs in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 3 miles north of Tower Island .
The British naval officer Henry Foster of the Royal Navy named such a group during his Antarctic voyage with the HMS Chanticleer (1827–1831), which later turned out to be the Phantom Islands. It is named after Lieutenant Edward Nicholas Kendall (1800–1845), who accompanied Foster on this trip. The French polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville named in the course of the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) a group as Îles Dumoulin , which are now divided into the cliffs described here and the Dumoulin Rocks to the southeast .
Web links
- Kendall Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kendall Rocks on geographic.org (English)