The Lafarge Rocks are one large and several smaller rocks lying northwest of
Casy Island and west of
Prime Head
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, the northern tip of the
Antarctic Peninsula. They were discovered by a French expedition, 1837–1840, under Captain
Jules Dumont d'Urville
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, and named by him for Ensign
Antoine Pavin de la Farge of the expedition ship ''Zélée''. They were recharted by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
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in 1946.
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References
Rock formations of the Trinity Peninsula
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