Surf rock
| Surf rock | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 12 ′ S , 67 ° 5 ′ W | |
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The Surf Rock (of English surfing , surf, spray ' ; in Chile Islote Barrera, in Argentina roca Rompiente called) is a low cliff rocks in Marguerite Bay before Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 800 m west of the western tip of Neny Island and 300 m southeast of Runaway Island .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill carried out a rough map in 1936. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) specified this in 1947. The rock is named after the waves breaking here .
Web links
- Surf Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Surf Rock on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barrera, Islote (CHL) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed November 10, 2018
- ↑ Rompiente, roca (ARG) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on November 10, 2018