Montravel Rock
| Montravel Rock | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 9 ′ S , 58 ° 3 ′ W | |
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The Montravel Rock ( French Roche Montravel ) is a cliff rock off the northwest coast of the Trinity Peninsula in the north of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 18 km north of Cape Legoupil .
Participants of the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered him in February 1838. D'Urville named him after Louis Tardy de Montravel (1811-1864), officer on board his ship Zélée . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the French name into English in 1952.
Web links
- Montravel Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Montravel Rock on geographic.org (English)