Swan Rock
| Swan Rock | ||
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| Waters | Bay of Flanders | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 59 ′ S , 63 ° 18 ′ W | |
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The Swan Rock is a 2 m high cliff rock off the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 2.5 km southwest of Cape Willems in the Bay of Flanders .
The rock is still unnamed on an Argentine nautical map from 1950. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the British inventor and photography pioneer Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914).
Web links
- Swan rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Swan Rock on geographic.org (English)