Launch Rock
Launch Rock is a submerged rock lying southwest of the Glover Rocks, off the south end of Adelaide Island, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee to commemorate the unnamed launch from RRS John Biscoe that was used by the Hydrographic Survey Unit which charted this area in 1963.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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.
Launch Rock
- Type: Water
- Categories: submerged rock and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Launch Rock” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “朗奇岩”
- German: “Launch Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Launch Rock”
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Highlights include Glover Rocks and América, punta.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Launch Rock”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.