Shull Rocks
| Shull Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 27 ′ S , 66 ° 39 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Shull Rocks are a chain of a low and snowy island and reef rocks off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 16 km northwest of Cape Rey in the Crystal Sound .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out from 1958 to 1959 was used to map it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the group in 1960 after the US physicist and Nobel Prize winner Clifford Shull (1915-2001), who developed a method using neutron scattering to determine the position of hydrogen atoms in ice .
Web links
- Shull Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shull Rocks on geographic.org (English)