Phone rocks
| Phone rocks | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 15 ′ S , 58 ° 26 ′ W | |
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The Telephone Rocks are a group of cliff rocks in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They are located 2.5 km south-southwest of Demay Point off the west side of the entrance to Admiralty Bay on King George Island .
They are named after the SS Telefon , a cargo steamer built in 1900 under the Norwegian flag, which ran onto a reef off King George Island in 1908.
Web links
- Telephone Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Telefon Rocks on geographic.org (English)