Patience Rocks
Patience Rocks is a group of rocks lying 1.5 nautical miles northwest of Avian Island, close off the south end of Adelaide Island. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Leading Engineer Mechanic Donald Patience, a member of the Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit which charted this area in 1963.Places of Interest
Highlights include Carvajal.
Carvajal
Dwelling
Photo: Apacheeng lead, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Teniente Luis Carvajal Villaroel Antarctic Base is a seasonal Chilean Antarctic base on the south-west tip of Adelaide Island, in Graham Land off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Patience Rocks
- Type: Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Patience Rocks” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Patience Rocks”
- Chinese: “佩申斯岩”
- Dutch: “Patience Rocks”
- German: “Patience Rocks”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Patience Rocks”
- Spanish: “Patience, rocas”
- Swedish: “Patience Rocks”
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Highlights include Glover Rocks and América, punta.
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