O'Connors Rock
| O'Connors Rock | ||
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| Waters | Visca Anchorage | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 4 ′ S , 58 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 1 m | |
The O'Connors Rock (in the United Kingdom O'Connor Rock ) is a cliff rock in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 160 m southwest of Stenhouse Bluff in the Visca Anchorage Bay of King George Island .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped it. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations named it in 1927 as O'Connor's Rock after midshipman W. P. O'Connor of the Reserve Forces of the Royal Navy , who was involved in the survey work of the Visca Anchorage. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names changed this name in 1952 to its current form. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee introduced the term used in the United Kingdom in 1974.
Web links
- O'Connors Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- O'Connors Rock on geographic.org (English)