Sheppard Rocks

The Ricker Hills are a group of mainly ice-free hills, about 9 nautical miles long, lying just west of Hollingsworth Glacier in Antarctica. They were mapped and named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1962–63, for J.F.
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Latitude
-75.61667° or 75° 37′ south
Longitude
158.63333° or 158° 38′ east
Open location code
2RPW9JMM+88
Geo­Names ID
6625183
Wiki­data ID
Q7147750

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Sheppard Rocks” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Sheppard Rocks”
  • Chinese: “謝潑德岩”
  • Dutch: “Sheppard Rocks”
  • German: “Sheppard Rocks”
  • Hebrew: “סלעי שפרד”
  • Ladin: “Sheppard Rocks”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sheppard Rocks”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sheppard Rocks”
  • Swedish: “Sheppard Rocks”

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