Boot Rock

Boot Rock is a rock, 30 metres high, which lies 0.1 nautical miles off the southeast side of in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted and named by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II in 1930.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Andromeda and Mount Perseus.

Peak
is, at 550 metres, the higher and more southerly of the twin ice domes, this one marking the summit of , South Sandwich Islands.

Peak
is the lower and more northerly of twin ice domes in the east part of , South Sandwich Islands. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 in association with nearby .

is an isolated rock 0.6 nautical miles east-southeast of , , in the South Sandwich Islands. It is 24 meters high.

Boot Rock

Latitude
-57.09415° or 57° 5′ 39″ south
Longitude
-26.68784° or 26° 41′ 16″ west
Open location code
39JMW846+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1239199429
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bare_rock
Geo­Names ID
3426573
Wiki­data ID
Q4943830
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Boot Rock” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Boot Rock”
  • Chinese: “布特岩”
  • German: “Boot Rock”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Boot Rock”
  • Spanish: “Roca Bota”
  • Swedish: “Boot Rock”

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