Koerner Rock
| Koerner Rock | ||
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| height | 600 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 18 ′ 52 ″ S , 57 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Koerner Rock is a striking and around 600 m high ledge in Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Trinity Peninsula, it rises 6 km southwest of Cape Dubouzet .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1964 after Roy Martindale Koerner (1932-2008), who worked from 1957 to 1960 as an assistant meteorologist and glaciologist for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in Hope Bay .
Web links
- Koerner Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Koerner Rock on geographic.org (English)