Magee skirt
| Magee skirt | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Swain Islands ( Windmill Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 13 ′ S , 110 ° 37 ′ E | |
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The Magee Rock is an island-like reef rock in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . In the group of Swain Islands it lies 300 m northeast of the island of Cameron Iceland .
Aerial photos of the reef rock were taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947) and in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions and during a Soviet Antarctic expedition. In 1957, scientists at Wilkes Station under the direction of the US polar explorer Carl R. Eklund (1909–1962) carried out a survey. Eklund named it after George E. Magee (* 1936), a carpenter at Wilkes Station that same year.
Web links
- Magee Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Magee Rock on geographic.org (English)