Keuken Rock
Keuken Rock is a large insular rock lying off the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica, about 1.4 nautical miles southwest of Barratt Island. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for J.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gardner Island and Barratt Island.
Gardner Island
Island
Gardner Island is a largely ice-free island which lies about 3 km west of Broad Peninsula in the southern Vestfold Hills, in Prydz Bay on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica.
Barratt Island
Islet
Barratt Island is a small island lying off the Vestfold Hills, about 2 kilometres west of Bluff Island. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for N.R. Barratt Island is situated 2½ km northeast of Keuken Rock.
Krat Rocks
Reef
The Krat Rocks are an area of submerged rocks with a least depth of about 1 metre, lying at the west side of Davis Anchorage, 0.8 nautical miles south of Bluff Island, off the Vestfold Hills, Ingrid Christensen Coast, Antarctica. Krat Rocks is situated 3 km east of Keuken Rock.
Keuken Rock
- Type: Islet
- Also known as: “Keuken Island”
- Categories: rock formation, island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-68.57419° or 68° 34′ 27″ southLongitude
77.83216° or 77° 49′ 56″ eastElevation
16 metres (52 feet)Open location code
3J3VCRGJ+8VOpenStreetMap ID
way 233010527OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
6636022Wikidata ID
Q6395616
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Keuken Rock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Keuken Island”
- Chinese: “科伊肯岩”
- Dutch: “Keuken Island”
- German: “Keuken Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Keuken Rock”
- Swedish: “Keuken Island”
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