Ibar Rocks

Summary

The Ibar Rocks are two rocks located 0.4 kilometres (0.2 nmi) east of Bonert Rock and 1 kilometre (0.6 nmi) southeast of Canto Point, Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The names "Islote Ibar" and "Islote Teniente Ibar" appearing on Chilean hydrographic charts in the 1950s refer to the larger and western rock. The recommended name "Ibar Rocks" includes a submerged outlier to the northeast of the larger rock. Teniente (lieutenant) Mario Ibar P. signed the official act of inauguration of the Chilean Captain Arturo Prat Base on Greenwich Island in 1947.[1]

Ibar Rocks
Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands
Ibar Rocks is located in Antarctic Peninsula
Ibar Rocks
Ibar Rocks
Location of Ibar Rocks
Ibar Rocks is located in Antarctica
Ibar Rocks
Ibar Rocks
Ibar Rocks (Antarctica)
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates62°26′55″S 59°42′33″W / 62.44861°S 59.70917°W / -62.44861; -59.70917
ArchipelagoSouth Shetland Islands
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

See also edit

Maps edit

  • L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References edit

  This article incorporates public domain material from "Ibar Rocks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

External links edit

  • SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
 
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.