Quilp skirt
| Quilp skirt | ||
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| Waters | Laubeuf Fjord | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 38 ′ S , 67 ° 45 ′ W | |
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The Quilp rock is a small and isolated cliff rocks in Laubeuf Fjord before the Loubet coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 5.5 km south-southeast of the southern tip of Piñero Island and 2.5 km off the northwest coast of Pourquoi-Pas Island .
Scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it and named it in 1948. It is named after Daniel Quilp, a dwarf figure from the story Der Raritätenladen ( The Old Curiosity Shop ) after Charles Dickens from 1841.
Web links
- Quilp rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Quilp Rock on geographic.org (English)