Monument Rocks
| Monument Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Curtiss Bay | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 1 ′ S , 60 ° 57 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Monument Rocks (English for Monument Rocks ) are a group of cliff rocks in front of the Davis Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 6 km northeast of Cape Sterneck in Curtiss Bay .
They were roughly mapped and descriptively named by James Hoseason , First Mate of the Sprightley under Captain Edward Hughes, who operated in these waters between 1824 and 1825 on behalf of the British whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons .
Web links
- Monument Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Monument Rocks on geographic.org (English)