Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Hobby Rocks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hobby Rocks (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Rock
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Three small islanda about 0.8 km east of Gardner Island, off the Vestfold Hills. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Plotted from ANARE vertical air photographs.
Named after D. Hobby, diesel mechanic at Davis in 1960.
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