Bowler Rocks
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Bowler Rocks
OR:
Bowler Rocks on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Bowler Rocks is a group of rocks off the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica lying southwest of
Table Island Table Island is an uninhabited island within the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. It lies in Norwegian Bay, north of Devon Island, and is also south Cornwall Island, separated by Belcher Channel. Ekins Island is a small islet ab ...
and northwest of Aitcho Islands, and extending in east-west direction. The area was visited by early 19th-century
sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 180 ...
. The feature is named after David Bowler, surveying recorder aboard the launch ''Nimrod'' during the Royal Navy hydrographic survey of the rocks in 1967.


Location

The midpoint is located at which is southwest of Table Island, northwest of Morris Rock, north of Holmes Rock and northeast of Romeo Island (Argentine mapping in 1949, 1953 and 1980, British in 1968 and 1974, Chilean in 1971, and Bulgarian in 2009).


See also

*
Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about t ...
* Greenwich Island * List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S * SCAR * Territorial claims in Antarctica


Maps

* L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.


References


External links


SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Islands of the South Shetland Islands {{GreenwichIsland-geo-stub