Sphinx Rock (Viktorialand)
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| Waters | Robertson Bay | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 27 ′ S , 169 ° 30 ′ E | |
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The Sphinx Rock is a 50 m high island off the Pennell coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located in front of Islands Point in the western part of Robertson Bay .
The northern group led by the British polar explorer Victor Campbell on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) mapped the island in 1911. Campbell gave it a descriptive name because its shape is reminiscent of a sphinx .
Web links
- Sphinx rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sphinx Rock on geographic.org (English)