Winslow Rock
| Winslow Rock | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 17 ′ S , 66 ° 44 ′ W | |
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The Winslow rock is a cliff in the archipelago of Biscoe Islands off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . The rock lies off the east side of Lavoisier Island and is the site of a penguin colony .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the US physiologist Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (1877-1957), who had dealt with the reactions of the human body in cold areas, among other things.
Web links
- Winslow rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Winslow Rock on geographic.org (English)