Noire rock
| Noire rock | ||
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| height | 320 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 40 '47 " S , 62 ° 33' 18" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Noire Rock ( French Roche Noire , translated Black Rock ), known in the United Kingdom as Sable Pinnacles (English for Black Peaks ), is a dark, forked and 320 m high rock needle on the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . The rock rises 2.5 km southwest of Mount Dedo in the northwest of the Arctowski Peninsula .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899), led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery, mapped it in 1898 and named it descriptively. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the French name into English in 1965.
Web links
- Noire Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Noire Rock on geographic.org (English)