Magee Rock () is an insular rock lying northeast of Cameron Island, in the

Swain Islands The Swain Islands are a group of small islands and rocks about in extent, lying north of Clark Peninsula at the northeast end of the Windmill Islands. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in February 1947. Nam ...

of Antarctica. This region was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy

Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...

(1946–47),

Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program (AAp) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). History Australia has had a long involv ...

(1956) and the Soviet expedition (1956). The rock was included in a 1957 ground survey by

Carl R. Eklund Carl Robert Eklund (January 27, 1909 – November 3, 1962) was a leading American specialist in ornithology and geographic research in both the north and south polar regions. He was appointed as the first Scientific Station Leader of the Wilkes S ...

, who named it for George E. Magee, U.S. Navy, a carpenter at Wilkes Station, 1957.

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Rock formations of Wilkes Land {{WilkesLand-geo-stub