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Antarctica ID: | 7544 |
Name: | Page Rock |
Class: | Island |
Latitude: | -67.8666667 |
Longitude: | -68.7 |
Description: | Small isolated rock in Marguerite Bay, lying midway between Emperor Island and Noble Rocks in the Dion Islands. The Dion Islands were first sighted and roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE) in 1909. Jester Rock was surveyed in 1948 by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), and so named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) because of its association with Emperor Island. |
BGN: | 01-JAN-56 |
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Antarctica ID: | 7544 |
Name: | Jester Rock |
Class: | Island |
Latitude: | -67.8666667 |
Longitude: | -68.7 |
Description: | Small isolated rock in Marguerite Bay, lying midway between Emperor Island and Noble Rocks in the Dion Islands. The Dion Islands were first sighted and roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE) in 1909. Jester Rock was surveyed in 1948 by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), and so named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) because of its association with Emperor Island. |
BGN: | 01-JAN-56 |
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