Boutan Rocks () are a small group of rocks lying southwest of

Bruce Island Bruce Island (russian: text=Остров Брюса, translit=Ostrov Brjusa, italic=yes) is an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia. Its area is . The highest point of the island is . This island was named after Henry Bruce, who succeeded the Earl ...

, off the west coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...

. The rocks appear on an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

government chart of 1954. They were named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

in 1960 for Louis Marie-Auguste Boutan (1859–1934), French naturalist and pioneer of submarine photography, 1893–98.

References

* Rock formations of Graham Land Danco Coast {{DancoCoast-geo-stub