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Bowler Rocks

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Bowler Rocks
Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands
Bowler Rocks is located in Antarctic Peninsula
Bowler Rocks
Bowler Rocks
Location of Bowler Rocks
Bowler Rocks is located in Antarctica
Bowler Rocks
Bowler Rocks
Bowler Rocks (Antarctica)
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates62°21′19.1″S 59°49′36.1″W / 62.355306°S 59.826694°W / -62.355306; -59.826694
ArchipelagoSouth Shetland Islands
Length1 km (0.6 mi)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Populationuninhabited

Bowler Rocks is a group of rocks off the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.[1] They lie southwest of Table Island and northwest of Aitcho Islands, and extending 1 km (0.62 mi) in east-west direction.

The area was visited by early 19th-century sealers.[1] The feature is named after David Michael Bowler, surveying recorder aboard the launch Nimrod during the Royal Navy hydrographic survey of the rocks in 1967.[2]

Location

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The midpoint is located at which is 1.1 km (0.68 mi) southwest of Table Island, 2.15 km (1.34 mi) northwest of Morris Rock, 3.1 km (1.9 mi) north of Holmes Rock and 5.3 km (3.3 mi) northeast of Romeo Island (Argentine mapping in 1949, 1953 and 1980, British in 1968 and 1974, Chilean in 1971, and Bulgarian in 2009).

See also

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Maps

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  • L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

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  1. ^ a b Stewart, John (1990). Antarctica: An Encyclopedia. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. pp. 945–946. ISBN 0899504701.
  2. ^ "Bowler Rocks". Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
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Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.