Porteous Rocks
| Porteous Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Fyr Channel | |
| archipelago | South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 44 ′ S , 45 ° 41 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Porteous Rocks are a group of cliff rocks in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . They are just south of Porteous Point in the northern entrance to the Fyr Channel off the southwest end of Signy Island .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys between 1947 and 1950. Aerial photographs were taken in 1968 by the Royal Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2004 based on the name of the neighboring headland. It is named after Andrew Nicol Porteous (1889 – unknown), engineer on the research vessel RRS Discovery II for the British Discovery Investigations .
Web links
- Porteous Rocks in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)