Noble rocks
| Noble rocks | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| archipelago | Dion Islands ( Adelaide and Biscoe Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 52 ′ S , 68 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 19th | |
The Nobel Rocks (English for noble rocks ) are a group of around 19 small and low cliff rocks in northern Marguerite Bay off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They belong to the group of the Dion Islands and lie east of Jester Rock .
The Dion Islands were discovered and roughly mapped in 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1949 took measurements specifically of these cliff rocks. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on 31 March 1955 at the context Emperor Iceland (English for Emperor Island ).
Web links
- Nobel Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nobel Rocks on geographic.org (English)