Mackworth Rock
| Mackworth Rock | ||
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| Waters | Pendleton Strait | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 3 ′ S , 66 ° 33 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Mackworth rock is a cliff rocks in the archipelago of Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In Pendleton Strait , it is 3 km north of Cape Leblond on Lavoisier Island .
Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957) were used to map it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the rock in 1960 after the British physiologist Norman Mackworth (1917–2005), who in 1953 provided the first unequivocal evidence of human acclimatization to cold.
Web links
- Mackworth Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mackworth Rock on geographic.org (English)