Name details

Scend Rocks

Scend Rocks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Scend Rocks  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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United States Gazetteer Id 131254

Feature type: Rock (5)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

Small group of rocks lying 1.5 mi SW of Rumbler Rock and 2.5 mi WNW of Outcast Islands, off the SW coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Surveyed by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1956-57, and named by the UK-APC in 1958. Scend is a nautical term describing the horizontal forward and backward flow of sea water breaking over a shallow obstruction, caused by the incoming ocean swell.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
64° 48' 00.0" S
-64.80000°
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Longitude:
64° 15' 00.0" W
-64.25000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1960

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