Whiting Rocks
| Whiting Rocks | ||
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| Waters | French passage | |
| archipelago | Argentine Islands ( Wilhelm Archipelago , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 15 ′ S , 64 ° 21 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 3 | |
The Whiting Rocks are three cliff rocks off the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Wilhelm Archipelago they are 800 m south of The Barchans in the group of the Argentine Islands .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1971 after Colin Stuart Whiting (* 1944), surveyor assistant for the hydrographic unit on board the HMS Endurance in this area in February 1969.
Web links
- Whiting Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whiting Rocks on geographic.org (English)