Kramer Rocks
| Kramer Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Beascochea Bay | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 27 ′ S , 64 ° 1 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Kramer Rocks are two cliff rocks off the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located 5 km southeast of Cape Pérez in the northern part of Beascochea Bay .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them using aerial photographs from Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the Austrian military doctor Johann Georg Heinrich Kramer (approx. 1690–1773), who in 1737 recognized malnutrition as the cause of scurvy .
Web links
- Kramer Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kramer Rocks on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Feldner: The exploration of the eastern Austrian bird life by Wilhelm Heinrich Franz Xaver Kramer (1724-1765). In: Ökol. Birds (Ecol. Birds). 34, 2012, pp. 141-180.