Williams Rocks
| Williams Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 26 ′ S , 62 ° 46 ′ E | |
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The Williams Rocks are a group of cliff rocks off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . They are 15 km north of the Flat Islands and Holme Bay .
It was mapped in 1954 on one of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after John Stanley Marsden Williams (* 1934), assistant diesel generator mechanic at Mawson Station in 1962, who was involved in triangulating these rocks and erecting a beacon on them.
Web links
- Williams Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Williams Rocks on geographic.org (English)