Mainsail rock
| Mainsail rock | ||
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| Waters | Sandefjord Bay ( Coronation Island ) | |
| Archipelago | South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 36 ′ S , 46 ° 2 ′ W | |
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The Mainsail Rock ( English for mainsail rock ) is a cliff rock in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is located 1 km southwest of Spine Island in the Sandefjord Bay of Coronation Island . It is the largest and most easterly of a chain of three cliff rocks, which are distributed in a north-west-south-east direction off the southeast side of Monroe Island .
The name was given by scientists from the British Discovery Investigations following surveys carried out in 1933.
Web links
- Mainsail Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mainsail Rock on geographic.org (English)