Scend Rocks
| Scend Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 48 ′ S , 64 ° 17 ′ W | |
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The Scend Rocks are a small group of cliff rocks in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 2.5 km southwest of Rumbler Rock and 4 km west-northwest of the Outcast Islands off the southwest coast of Anvers Island .
A Royal Navy hydrographic unit surveyed the rocks between 1956 and 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1958. Scend is an English-language term from seafaring for the breaking of waves on a shoal when there is a corresponding swell .
Web links
- Scend Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scend Rocks on geographic.org (English)