Snag Rocks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Snag 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 2 m above sea level at NW end of French Passage, Wilhelm Archipelago, were photographed from the air from HMS Protector's helicopter by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit in March 1958; so named because the rocks constitute a hazard near the middle of the fairway (APC, 1959a, p.11; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960). Rocas Bravo, so called by CAE, 1960-61, after Capt. (F) Eugenio Bravo Crawley-Boevey, Operations Officer on the expedition (Chile. DNH chart 1502, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.54). Stag [sic] Rocks (BA, 1974, p.189).
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