Kollskjer
| Kollskjer | ||
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| Waters | Oom Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 24 ′ S , 60 ° 41 ′ E | |
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Kollskjer (Norwegian for hill Skerry , in Australia Blake Iceland ) is a large cliff rocks in front of the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It is located 800 m southeast of Oom Island on the west side of Oom Bay .
Norwegian cartographers , who also named it, mapped it using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Australian name is named after John Roger Blake (* 1936), aurora researcher at Mawson Station in 1958.
Web links
- Koll rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Koll Rock on geographic.org (English)