Ryrie Rock
| Ryrie Rock | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 3 ′ S , 61 ° 27 ′ E | |
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The Ryrie Rock is an isolated cliff rock off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is 18 km northeast of Kidson Island and 42 km northeast of Byrd Head .
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him in February 1931. Mawson named him after Granville de Laune Ryrie (1865-1937), Australian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom from 1927 until 1932.
Web links
- Ryrie Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ryrie Rock on geographic.org (English)