Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Van Rocks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Van 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:
two groups of rocks off Cape James, Smith Island, following air photography by FIDASE, 1956-57, were so named from their conspicious appearance and position marking the W extremity of the South Shetland Islands (APC, 1962, p.32; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962).
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