Workman Rocks
| Workman Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Darbel Bay | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 24 ′ S , 65 ° 41 ′ W | |
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The Workman Rocks are a group of cliffs off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located immediately west of the Panther Cliff in front of the entrance to Ensenada Aguayo in the northeastern part of Darbel Bay .
Aerial photographs were taken between 1956 and 1957 during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the US physicist Everley John Workman (1899–1982), who had studied the electrical properties of ice.
Web links
- Workman Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Workman Rocks on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ EJ Workman. Short biography on the homepage of the University of New Mexico (English). Retrieved November 2, 2018.