Trickster Rocks
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 36 ′ S , 64 ° 36 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 3 | |
The Trickster Rocks (from English trickster 'crooks, swindlers, fraudsters' ) are a group of several small cliff rocks off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are 1.5 km northwest of Chavez Island .
The Hunting Aero Surveys Ltd. took the first aerial photographs of the group between 1957 and 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959. The fact that scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey had mistaken them for icebergs in 1957 gave them their name.
Web links
- Trickster Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Trickster Rocks on geographic.org (English)