Marker skirt
| Marker skirt | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Archipelago | Saffery Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 5 ′ S , 65 ° 47 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Marker Rock (from English marker 'indicator, marker' ) is a cliff rock off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of Saffery Islands, it juts out of the sea 2.5 km north-northwest of Turnabout Island .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it that way in 1959 because it is a landmark for ship passage through the Saffery Islands.
Web links
- Marker rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Marker Rock on geographic.org (English)