Keuken Rock
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 35 ′ S , 77 ° 50 ′ E | |
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The Keuken Rock is a large, island-like cliff off the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . In the Vestfold Mountains , it is 1.5 km west of Gardner Island and 2.3 km southwest of Barratt Island .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Jannes Keuken, a weather observer at nearby Davis Station in 1958.
Web links
- Keuken rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Keuken Rock on geographic.org (English)