Spirtle skirt
| Spirtle skirt | ||
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| Waters | French passage | |
| Archipelago | Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 14 ′ S , 64 ° 21 ′ W | |
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The Spirtle Rock (translated from the colloquial English as splashing water rock ) is a cliff rock washed over by the sea in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Argentine Islands it lies between The Barchans and the Anagram Islands .
It received its descriptive name in 1971 from the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee .
Web links
- Spirtle rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spirtle Rock on geographic.org (English)