Tate Rocks
| Tate Rocks | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Grove Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 40 ′ S , 74 ° 33 ′ E | |
The Tate Rocks are three small nunatakkers in Princess Elisabeth Land, East Antarctica . In the Grove Mountains they tower 11 km north-northwest of the Mason Peaks .
The nunatakkers were mapped using aerial photographs taken between 1956 and 1960 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named them on July 29, 1965 after Kenneth A. Tate, who was a radio operator at Mawson Station in 1962.
Web links
- Tate Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tate Rocks on geographic.org (English)