Possession Rocks
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| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 45 ′ S , 98 ° 51 ′ E | |
The Possession Rocks are two 160 m high ledges on the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie Land . They loom just north of the Northcliffe Glacier .
They discovered a sleigh team led by Frank Wild on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . They are named after the declared occupation of this area by Mawson on behalf of the United Kingdom in December 1912.
Web links
- Possession Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Possession Rocks on geographic.org (English)