Split rock
| Split rock | ||
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| Waters | Arthur Harbor | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 47 ′ S , 64 ° 7 ′ W | |
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The Split Rock (from the English loosely translated Cleaved rock ) is an oval and a column criss cliff rocks in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 150 m northwest of Janus Island off the southwest coast of Anvers Island .
A team working at the Palmer station gave the rock its descriptive name in 1972.
Web links
- Split Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Split Rock on geographic.org (English)