Koerner Rock

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Koerner Rock (63°18′51″S 57°6′3″W / 63.31417°S 57.10083°W / -63.31417; -57.10083Coordinates: 63°18′51″S 57°6′3″W / 63.31417°S 57.10083°W / -63.31417; -57.10083) is a small but conspicuous rock outcropping located 4 nautical miles (7 km) southwest of Cape Dubouzet and 2.08 nautical miles (4 km) southeast of Yagodina Knoll, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Roy M. Koerner, an assistant meteorologist and glaciologist with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey at Hope Bay, from 1957 to 1960.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Koerner Rock". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-05-13.

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