Reilly Rocks
| Reilly Rocks | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Kohler Range | |
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| Coordinates | 75 ° 9 ′ S , 114 ° 59 ′ W | |
The Reilly Rocks are a group of rocks in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . In the northwest section of the Kohler Range, they rise 8 km north-northwest of Detling Peak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the rocks in 1976 after Gerald E. Reilly Jr. of the United States Coast Guard , engineer on the icebreaker USS Glacier , who was en route from on January 22, 1976 in an accident aboard the ship in the Ross Sea the McMurdo Station on the Antarctic Peninsula was killed.
Web links
- Reilly Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Reilly Rocks on geographic.org (English)