Sophie Rocks

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Sophie Rocks on the Danco Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula

Sophie Rocks (

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64°39′S 62°33′W / 64.650°S 62.550°W / -64.650; -62.550Coordinates: 64°39′S 62°33′W / 64.650°S 62.550°W / -64.650; -62.550) is a small group of land rocks midway between Spigot Peak and , overlooking to the west and Orne Harbour to the east, Arctowski Peninsula, Danco Coast, Antarctica. The name Sophie Rocks was originally used by Frederick Cook, a member of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, in 1898 to refer to this conspicuous group of rocks and presumably Spigot Peak and Zeiss Needle, as well.[1]

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  1. ^ Cook, Frederick A (1900). Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898–1899.

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