Nelson Rock
| Nelson Rock | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 23 ′ S , 62 ° 45 ′ E | |
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The Nelson rock is a single, dark and sometimes icy cliff rocks in front of the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It is 3 miles north of Williams Rocks .
It was mapped in 1954 on one of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after Robert EK Nelson, a weather observer at Mawson Station in 1962, who was involved in triangulating this rock and building a beacon on it.
Web links
- Nelson rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nelson Rock on geographic.org (English)