Runciman Rock
| Runciman Rock | ||
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| Waters | Black Island Channel | |
| Archipelago | Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 16 ′ S , 64 ° 16 ′ W | |
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The Runciman skirt one is a wave skirted cliff rocks in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Argentine Islands , it is 160 m east of Black Island in the southeast entrance to the Black Island Channel .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped him in 1935. Rymill named him after Philip Wood Runciman (1875-1953), chairman of the Whites Southhampton Yachtbuilding and Engineering Company , with the research vessel Penola had been repaired before the start of the expedition in 1934.
Web links
- Runciman Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Runciman Rock on geographic.org (English)