Sally Rocks
| Sally Rocks | ||
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| Waters | South Bay ( Livingston Island ) | |
| archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 42 ′ S , 60 ° 26 ′ W | |
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The Sally Rocks are a small group of cliff rocks in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the South Bay of Livingston Island they are just north of Miers Bluff .
The British navigator James Weddell named a supposed bay south of Johnson's Dock as Sallys Cove between 1820 and 1823 . Such a bay could not be identified on aerial photographs taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition between 1956 and 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred Weddell's name to the rocks described here in 1961 for reasons of historical continuity. The further naming background has not been passed down.
Web links
- Sally Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sally Rocks on geographic.org (English)