Solitary rocks
| Solitary rocks | ||
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| Highest peak | Pandora Spire ( 1670 m ) | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 47 ′ S , 161 ° 12 ′ E | |
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.
Web links
- Solitary Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Solitary Rocks on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernest Shackleton : The Heart of the Antarctic Vol. II. William Heinemann, London 1909, p. 64 (English, accessed on October 23, 2015).