Montrol Rock
| Montrol Rock | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Joinville Islands ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 58 ′ S , 56 ° 22 ′ W | |
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The Montrol Rock ( French Île Montrol ) is the largest of a group of cliff rocks east of Cape Juncal of D'Urville Island in the group of Joinville Islands off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants in the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered him. D'Urville named him after the French journalist and politician François Mongin de Montrol (1799–1862). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee changed D'Urville's designation into English in 1953.
Web links
- Montrol Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Montrol Rock on geographic.org (English)