Peake-Jones Rock
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 38 ′ S , 62 ° 48 ′ E | |
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The Peake-Jones rock is low and bean-shaped cliff before Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It is located 3 km northeast of Ring Rock in Holme Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped the rock using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Kenneth Peake-Jones, a weather observer at Mawson Station in 1959.
Web links
- Peake-Jones rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peake-Jones Rock on geographic.org (English)