Twig skirt
| Twig skirt | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Terra Firma Islands | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 42 ′ S , 67 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Twig rock (of English twig , branch, twig ' ) is a more than 90 meters high cliff rock in Marguerite Bay before Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Terra Firma Islands group, it rises between Alamode Island and Hayrick Island .
The first surveys of the archipelago were made by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The rock was then measured by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1948 . It is named after the branched dykes on its north side.
Web links
- Twig rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Twig Rock on geographic.org (English)