Travel Rocks
| Travel Rocks | ||
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 107 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Reist Rocks are a small group of rocky outcrops on the Knox coast of Wilkesland East Antarctica . They rise 13 km west of the Snyder Rocks .
They were mapped using aerial photographs taken during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1955 after Wilbur H. Reist (* 1927), who worked as a tractor operator for Operation Windmill (1947–1948) to set up astronomical observation stations along the Kaiser Wilhelm II coast and the Budd- Coast was involved.
Web links
- Reist Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Travel Rocks on geographic.org