Despair Rocks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Despair Rocks (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Rock
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising 30m above sea level W of Coronation Island, were charted by Palmer and Powell in December 1821 and named Rocks of Despair (Powell, chart, 1822a). Roches of Despair (Powell, 1824a, map facing p.5). Despair Rock (BA chart 1238, 7.ix.1839). Roche Despair (Vincendon-Dumoulin, atlas, 1847, Pl. 43). Despair Felsen (Friederichsen, 1895, Tafel 7 facing p.304). Despair Rocks (Sørlle and Borge, chart, 1913; BA chart 1775, 17.viii. 1934; APC, 1955, p.8). Despairholm (Sørlle, chart, [1930]). Rocas Despair (Argentina. MM chart 31, 1930). The rocks were re-charted by DI in 1933. Rochers Despair (France. SHM chart 1148, 1947). Rocas Desesperación [translation of English name] (Argentina. MM chart 117, 1952; Pierrou, 1970, p.310). Skaly Desper (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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