Marker Rock () is a rock lying north-northwest of
Turnabout Island in the
Saffery Islands, 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 ...
, Antarctica. It was charted by the
British Graham Land Expedition under
John Rymill
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, 1934–37, and was so named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
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in 1959 because it marks the ships' passage through the Saffery Islands.
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References
Rock formations of Graham Land
Graham Coast
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