Quinn Rock
| Quinn Rock | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Archipelago | Swain Islands ( Windmill Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 13 ′ 33.6 ″ S , 110 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 220 m | |
| width | 40 m | |
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The Quinn Rock is an elongated island-like reef rock with an east-west orientation in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . He is close to the Casey Station in the group of Swain Islands .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it on March 15, 1984 after the geodesist Peter W. Quinn, who set up a surveying station on this rock and wintered at Casey Station in 1978.
Web links
- Quinn rock in the directory of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)