Puget Rock
| Puget Rock | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | Joinville Islands ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 30 ′ S , 55 ° 39 ′ W | |
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The Puget Rock is a cliff in the Joinville Islands group off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises out of the Weddell Sea east of Eden Rocks off the eastern end of Dundee Island .
The British polar explorer James Clark Ross named on December 30, 1842 in the course of his Antarctic expedition (1839-1843) an object in this area that was later unidentifiable as Cape Puget . It is named after Captain William David Puget († 1853) of the Royal Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred Ross' name to the rock described here in 1957.
Web links
- Puget rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Puget Rock on geographic.org (English)