Mission rock
| Mission rock | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 49 ′ S , 68 ° 26 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 1 m | |
The Mission Rock (from English mission , mission, mission, order ' ) is a low cliff rock in Marguerite Bay off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located southwest of the Guébriant Islands off the southern end of Adelaide Island .
The hydrographic surveying unit of the Royal Navy mapped it between 1962 and 1963. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 based on the name of the Guébriant Islands, whose namesake is the French missionary Jean Budes de Guébriant (1860-1935).
Web links
- Mission rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mission Rock on geographic.org (English)