Pearl Rocks
| Pearl Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 36 ′ S , 59 ° 53 ′ W | |
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The Pearl Rocks (translated from English pearl rocks ) are a group of often snow-capped cliff rocks in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are spread over an area of 5 by 3 km just off the west coast of Tower Island .
Participants in the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1955–57) gave them their descriptive name.
Web links
- Pearl Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pearl Rocks on geographic.org (English)