Knight Rocks
| Knight Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Boyd Strait | |
| archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 49 ′ S , 61 ° 35 ′ W | |
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The Knight Rocks (from the English translated mutatis mutandis Ritter rocks ) are a group of small clip rocks in the archipelago of South Shetland Islands . They are 7 km west-northwest of the southern end of Snow Island in Boyd Strait .
Commander Frank William Hunt (* 1922) of the Royal Navy Hydrographic Unit surveyed the rocks between 1951 and 1952. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1954 based on the name of the neighboring Castle Rock (translated from English, for example, castle rock ).
Web links
- Knight Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Knight Rocks on geographic.org (English)