Urchin Rock
| Urchin Rock | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Archipelago | Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 19 ′ S , 64 ° 15 ′ W | |
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The Urchin Rock (from English urchin , ' Lausbub , Bengel' ) is a wave-breaking cliff in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham Coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 3.7 km west of the largest of the Berthelot Islands .
The rock was first recorded on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it that way in 1959 because it posed a hazard to shipping on the edge of the Grandidier Canal .
Web links
- Urchin rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Urchin Rock on geographic.org (English)