Worth Reef
| Worth Reef | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| archipelago | Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 48 ′ S , 68 ° 55 ′ W | |
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The Worth Reef is an arc-shaped arrangement of rocks and Rifffelsen in the archipelago of Adelaide- and Biscoe Islands off the west coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . The reef forms the northernmost part of the Henkes Islands in Marguerite Bay, off the southern end of Adelaide Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the reef in 1964 after David Arthur Worth (1936-1995), who was involved in surveying the reef in 1963 as a member of a hydrographic unit of the Royal Navy .
Web links
- Worth Reef in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Worth Reef on geographic.org (English)