Honores Rock
Honores Rock is a rock lying 1 kilometre southwest of Ferrer Point in Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name derives from the forms "Islote Honores" and "Islote Cocinero Honores" given by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition after the cook of the expedition ship Iquique.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Momchil Peak and Ilinden Peak.
Momchil Peak
Peak
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Momchil Peak is an ice-covered peak rising to 625 m in Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak is located north of Zheravna Glacier, 590 m east of Ilinden Peak, 1.7 km northeast of Razgrad Peak, 1.49 km northwest of the summit of Viskyar Ridge and 3.08 km north-northwest of Sartorius Point. Momchil Peak is situated 4 km south of Honores Rock.
Ilinden Peak
Peak
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Ilinden Peak is an ice-covered peak rising to 620 m in Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island, Antarctica. The peak has precipitous and partly ice-free south slopes, and surmounts Zheravna Glacier to the south, Solis Glacier to the northwest, and Fuerza Aérea Glacier to the north-northeast. Ilinden Peak is situated 4 km south of Honores Rock.
Breznik Heights
Peak
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Breznik Heights rises to over 600 m in the southeast part of Greenwich Island in Antarctica. They extend 12 km between Santa Cruz Point in the northeast and the base of the moraine spit of Provadiya Hook at the mouth of Yankee Harbour in the southwest. Breznik Heights is situated 3½ km southeast of Honores Rock.
Honores Rock
- Type: Island
- Also known as: “Honores”
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Honores Rock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Honores”
- Chinese: “霍諾雷斯岩”
- Dutch: “Honores”
- German: “Honores Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Honores Rock”
- Spanish: “Honores, Islote”
- Swedish: “Honores Rock”
- Swedish: “Honores”
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