Patience Rocks

Patience Rocks (67°45′S 68°56′W / 67.750°S 68.933°W / -67.750; -68.933) is a group of rocks lying 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) northwest of Avian Island, close off the south end of Adelaide Island. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Leading Engineer Mechanic Donald Patience, a member of the Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit which charted this area in 1963.

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Adelaide Island
Stations and basesHills, peaks,
and nunatuks
  • Mount Barre
  • Mount Bodys
  • Mount Bouvier
  • Bond Nunatak
  • Dewar Nunatak
  • Mount Ditte
  • Mount Gaudry
  • Hunt Peak
  • Lincoln Nunatak
  • Mount Liotard
  • Mount Machatschek
  • Mount Mangin
  • Mount Reeves
  • Sighing Peak
  • Stokes Peaks
  • Mount Velain
  • Visser Hill
GlaciersOther inland
featuresCoastal featuresOff-shore
Islands
Reefs and banks
Rocks
Straits

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