Boyer Rocks

The Boyer Rocks (63°35′S 59°0′W / 63.583°S 59.000°W / -63.583; -59.000Coordinates: 63°35′S 59°0′W / 63.583°S 59.000°W / -63.583; -59.000) are a small group of rocks in the northeast corner of Bone Bay, 3 nautical miles (6 km) southwest of Cape Roquemaurel, Trinity Peninsula. The rocks were mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1960–61), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Joseph Boyer, a French naval officer on the Astrolabe during her Antarctic voyage (1837–40).[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Boyer Rocks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-08-11.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Boyer Rocks" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, November 21, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.