Solitary rocks

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Solitary rocks
Highest peak Pandora Spire ( 1670  m )
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
part of Transantarctic Mountains
Solitary Rocks (Antarctica)
Solitary rocks
Coordinates 77 ° 47 ′  S , 161 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 77 ° 47 ′  S , 161 ° 12 ′  E
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The Solitary Rocks are a rock formation in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises immediately northwest of the Cavendish Icefalls on the north flank of the main bend of the Taylor Glacier .

The formation was discovered and named by participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . The western group of the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) was able to refute the island situation that Scott had rumored and which gave the formation its name. The survey of the area by Bertram Armytage , Raymond Priestley and Philip Brocklehurst in December 1908 showed that the Solitary Rocks are a peninsula.

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Individual evidence

  1. Ernest Shackleton : The Heart of the Antarctic Vol. II. William Heinemann, London 1909, p. 64 (English, accessed on October 23, 2015).