Melsom Rocks
| Melsom Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Scotia Lake | |
| archipelago | South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 30 ′ S , 46 ° 11 ′ W | |
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The Melsom Rocks are a group of isolated cliffs in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . They are 2 miles north of Despair Rocks and 7 miles west-southwest of Penguin Point , the northwest tip of Coronation Island .
The American sealer captain Nathaniel Palmer and his British counterpart George Powell discovered and mapped the cliffs in December 1821 while exploring the South Orkney Islands together. The Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle (1884-1933) made the naming in the course of his measurements of the archipelago between 1912 and 1913. It is named after Sørlle's Norwegian counterpart Henrik Govenius Melsom (1870–1944), who developed a slipway for factory ships for hauling in whale cadavers .
Web links
- Melsom Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Melsom Rocks on geographic.org (English)