Walkabout Rocks
| Walkabout Rocks | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Vestfold Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 22 ′ S , 78 ° 32 ′ E | |
The Walkabout Rocks are prominent rocky outcrops on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . They rise 800 m south of the Wyatt Earp Islands at the northeast end of the Vestfold Mountains .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins landed here on January 11, 1939 with the ship HMAS Wyatt Earp . Another visit was made in May 1957 by a team from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by the New Zealand geologist Bruce Harry Stinear (1913-2003), who secured the records left here in 1939. The latter were wrapped in an issue of the Australian geographic magazine Walkabout , which gave the formation its name.
Web links
- Walkabout Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Walkabout Rocks on geographic.org (English)