Consolation Rocks

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Coordinates: 69 ° 45 ′  S , 68 ° 58 ′  E

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Consolation Rocks​
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The Trost Rocks are two ledges at the northeast end of Single Island on the western flank of the Amery Ice Shelf off the coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land .

The first aerial photographs of the formation were taken in 1956 during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . Australian scientists scouted their geographic position on site in December 1962. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after the radiation physicist Peter Albert Trost (* 1925), who worked as an electrical engineer at Mawson Station in 1962 and was part of the team that explored the ledges in December of the same year.

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