The Duparc Rocks () are a group of rocks between off the coast, northeast of
Cape Roquemaurel Cape Roquemaurel () is a prominent rocky Antarctic headland at the east side of the entrance to Bone Bay, on the north side of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him fo ...
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Trinity Peninsula. They were mapped from surveys by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1960–61), and were named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for
Louis Duparc, a French naval officer on the
''Astrolabe'' during her Antarctic voyage (1837–1840).
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Rock formations of the Trinity Peninsula
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