Lorn Rocks
| Lorn Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 31 ′ S , 64 ° 55 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Lorn Rocks (English for Abandoned Rocks ) are a group of cliff rocks off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Biscoe Islands archipelago , they are 19 km west of the northern end of Lahille Island in the Grandidier Channel .
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 them in 1959.
Web links
- Lorn Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lorn Rocks on geographic.org (English)