Hauken Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hauken Rock (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:
awash NE of Cape Melville, King George Island, following air photography by FIDASE in 1956 was named, in association with Ørnen Rocks (q.v.), after the whe catcher Hauken (APC, 1960, p.4; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962). Hauken and Ørnen, the first two modern whale-catchers to visit South Shetland Islands, accompanied the floating factory ship Admiralen (Admiralen Peak, q.v.) to the South hetland Islands in January-February 1906. Rocas Ornen, in error (Argentina MM chart 110, 1963).
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