Lurker skirt
| Lurker skirt | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Faure Islands , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 4 ′ S , 68 ° 45 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 3 m | |
The Lurker rock (of English lurker , lurking, Schleicher ' ) is a 3 m high cliff rock in Marguerite Bay before Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises from the sea 5 km northeast of Dismal Island in the group of Faure Islands .
The Royal Navy's Hydrographic Surveying Unit mapped him from aboard RRS John Biscoe in 1966 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it so in 1971 because, mostly covered by ice, when the water level is high , it can be mistaken for an ice floe .
Web links
- Lurker Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lurker Rock on geographic.org (English)