Kingyo skirt
| Kingyo skirt | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 41 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Kingyo Rock ( Japanese 金魚 岩 Kingyo-iwa , German for 'goldfish rock ' ) is a large and elongated rock on the Crown Prince Olav coast in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica . It rises on the southern flank of the confluence of the Omega Glacier in the Cosmonaut Sea .
Aerial photographs and measurements by a Japanese Antarctic expedition carried out from 1957 to 1962 were used to map it. The US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the Japanese designation in 1968 in a partial translation into English.
Web links
- Kingyo Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kingyo Rock on geographic.org (English)