Palets rock
| Palets rock | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 11 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Palets skirt ( Russian Скала Палец scale Palez , German , finger rocks ' ) is an isolated promontory in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises halfway between Aerodromnaya Hill and the Schirmacher Oasis .
Participants in the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher took first aerial photographs and carried out rough mapping. Soviet scientists mapped the ledge again in 1961 and also made the descriptive naming. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the Russian designation in 1970 in a partial translation into English.
Web links
- Palets Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Palets Rock on geographic.org (English)