Patience Rocks
| Patience Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 45 ′ S , 68 ° 56 ′ W | |
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The Patience Rocks are a group of cliff rocks west of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 2.5 km northwest of Avian Island off the southern end of Adelaide Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after Donald Patience (* 1941), a member of a hydrographic unit of the Royal Navy that had mapped this area in 1963.
Web links
- Patience Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Patience Rocks on geographic.org (English)