Wiltshire Rocks
| Wiltshire Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Holme Bay | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 30 ′ S , 63 ° 7 ′ E | |
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The Wiltshire Rocks are a group of small rock islands off the Mawson Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the eastern part of Holme Bay they are 4 km east-northeast of Smith Rocks . They include, amongst other Kitney Iceland .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 and named it Spjotøyskjera . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1971 after Alan C. W. Wiltshire, cook at Mawson Station in 1963.
Web links
- Wiltshire Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wiltshire Rocks on geographic.org (English)