Lynx Rocks
| Lynx Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Hero Bay | |
| archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 32 ′ S , 60 ° 33 ′ W | |
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The Lynx Rocks are a group of cliff rocks in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They are in Hero Bay on Livingston Island , west of Siddons Point .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after the Australian seal hunter Lynx from Sydney , who operated in the waters around the southern Shetland Islands between 1820 and 1821 and between 1821 and 1822.
Web links
- Lynx Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lynx Rocks on geographic.org (English)