Wonsey skirt

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Wonsey skirt
Waters Vincennes Bay
Archipelago Swain Islands ( Windmill Islands )
Geographical location 66 ° 13 ′  S , 110 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 66 ° 13 ′  S , 110 ° 36 ′  E
Wonsey Rock (Antarctica)
Wonsey skirt
Map of the northern Windmill Islands with Wonsey Rock in the Swain Group (above center)
Map of the northern Windmill Islands with Wonsey Rock in the Swain Group (above center)

The Wonsey rock is a small Rifffelsen in the archipelago of the Windmill Islands off the Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . In the group of Swain Islands he is north of the island Cameron Iceland .

Aerial photos of the reef rock were taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947) and in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions and during a Soviet Antarctic expedition. In 1957, scientists at Wilkes Station under the direction of the US polar explorer Carl R. Eklund (1909–1962) carried out a survey. Eklund named it after Duane J. Wonsey (* 1936), a construction mechanic at Wilkes Station in the same year.

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