Tazieff Rocks
| Tazieff Rocks | ||
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| height | 200 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Type | Nunatak | |
The Tazieff Rocks are an approximately 200 m high nunatak on the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises 1.3 km southeast of Micou Point .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 at the suggestion of the New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond Kyle (* 1947). It is named after the French volcanologist Haroun Tazieff (1914–1998), who worked in three field research campaigns between 1973 and 1979 on Mount Erebus .
Web links
- Tazieff Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tazieff Rocks on geographic.org (English)