Snag Rocks
| Snag Rocks | ||
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| Waters | French passage | |
| archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 8 ′ S , 64 ° 26 ′ W | |
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The Snag Rocks (English for obstacle rock , in Chile Rocas Bravo ) are a group of reef rocks off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Wilhelm Archipelago they are between the Roca Islands and the Myriad Islands in the middle of the French Passage .
Aerial photographs of the rocks were taken in March 1958 with the help of the Westland Whirwind helicopter on board the Antarctic patrol ship HMS Protector . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave them their names on July 7, 1959. It is named after the fact that the rocks pose a danger to ships when crossing the French Passage. Participants of the 15th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1960–1961) named them after frigate captain Eugenio Bravo Crawley-Boevey, an operations officer on this research trip .
Web links
- Snag Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Snag Rocks on geographic.org (English)