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 (5)
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:
Very conspicuous pinnacle rocks lying close W of Cape James, Smith Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Roughly shown as a small island on a chart resulting from a British expedition under Foster, 1828-31. More accurately delineated by the FIDS in 1959 from air photos taken by the FIDASE, 1955-57. So named by the UK-APC because they mark the first or westernmost of the South Shetland Islands.
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