Runnelstone Rock
| Cat Island | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 47 ′ S , 65 ° 20 ′ W | |
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The Runnelstone Rock is a cliff rock in the Biscoe Islands group off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . At the southwest end of the Grandidier Canal , it is 5 km northwest of Larrouy Island and 26 km west-southwest of Cape García .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped it between 1935 and 1936 and named it after the Runnelstone in front of Land's End in Cornwall .
Web links
- Runnelstone rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Runnelstone Rock on geographic.org (English)