Thumb skirt
| Thumb skirt | ||
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| Waters | Stella Creek | |
| Archipelago | Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 15 ′ S , 64 ° 16 ′ W | |
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The Thumb Rock (from English thumb 'thumb' ) is a cliff in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Argentine Islands, it is located in the western entrance to Stella Creek between Winter Island and the northwestern end of Galíndez Island .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped and named the rock in 1935.
Web links
- Thumb rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thumb Rock on geographic.org (English)