Oluf Rocks
| Oluf Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Gilbert Strait | |
| archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 42 ′ S , 60 ° 10 ′ W | |
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The Oluf Rocks (in Chile Rocas Paredes ) are a small group of reef rocks in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 5.5 m east of Cape Neumayer on Trinity Island .
Aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition from 1955 to 1957 were used to map them. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1960 after the Danish cargo ship Oluf Sven under Captain Jan C. Ryge, who was in service for this expedition from 1955 to 1956, e.g. B. for transport trips to Deception Island and as a mobile base of operations for surveying teams. Participants of the 1st Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1946–1947) named them after Luis S. Paredes Uribe (* 1915), cook on this research trip .
Web links
- Oluf Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Oluf Rocks on geographic.org (English)