Jagged Rocks

The Jagged Rocks (63°24′S 56°59′W / 63.400°S 56.983°W / -63.400; -56.983Coordinates: 63°24′S 56°59′W / 63.400°S 56.983°W / -63.400; -56.983) are a group of rocks lying near the center of Hut Cove in the eastern part of Hope Bay, at the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. First charted in 1903 by a party under J. Gunner Andersson of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, they were given this descriptive name by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1945.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Jagged Rocks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-07-14.

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