Spiessbåane
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 24 ′ S , 3 ° 26 ′ E | |
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The Spiessbåane (Norwegian for spit rock ) are cliff rocks in the South Atlantic that are washed over by the sea . They are located 600 m northeast of Cape Lollo in front of Bouvet Island .
The Norwegian captain Harald Horntvedt (1879-1946) charted and named them in December 1927 during the research voyage with the Norvegia . It is named after Fritz Spieß (1881–1959), commander of the research vessel Meteor on the German Atlantic Expedition (1925–1927), which visited Bouvet Island in 1926.
Web links
- Spiess Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spiess Rocks on geographic.org (English)