Minerva Rocks
| Minerva Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Orléans Street | |
| archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 53 ′ S , 60 ° 37 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Minerva Rocks are a small group of cliff rocks in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located in front of Chionis Island near Trinity Island .
They are named after the whaler Minerva of the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur Lars Christensen , who ran aground here on March 1, 1922, had a crash and had to be abandoned.
Web links
- Minerva Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Minerva Rocks on geographic.org (English)