Turtle skirt
| Turtle skirt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Waters | Erebus Bay | |
| Archipelago | Ross Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 44 ′ S , 166 ° 46 ′ E | |
|
||
The Turtle Rock (literally translated from English Turtle Rock ) is a small island or a cliff rocks in the Antarctic Ross Archipelago . It is west of the Hut Point Peninsula in Erebus Bay on Ross Island .
Participants in the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered him and named him descriptively after his appearance.
Web links
- Turtle Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey .
- Turtle Rock on geographic.org (English).