Dodge Rocks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Dodge Rocks (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Island
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 12m above sea level, N of Cape Murray, Danco Coast. The largest of the three rocks was called Penguin Island by BAE, 1920-22, probably after the usage of whalers (Lester, 1920-22b, p.17), or Isla Afuera [=outward island] by AAE, 1952-53 (Argentina. MM chart EE, 1954). Islotes Afuera (Argentina. MM, 1956 p.73; Pierrou, 1970, p.149). Following air photography by FIDASE, 1956-57, the whole feature was named descriptively Dodge Rocks (APC, 1960, p.3; BA chart 3560, 7.iv.1961). Islotes de Afuera (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.140; IHA, 1974, p.94). Afuera Islands (USBGN, 1965, p.92).
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