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Box Reef () is a line of drying rocks lying between Esplin Islands and League Rock, off the south end of
Adelaide Island Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Ginger Islands lie off the southern end. Mount Bodys is the easternmost mounta ...
. The name, given by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...
in 1963 in association with nearby Cox Reef, derives from '' Box and Cox'', the well-known English literary allusion to two individuals who occupied the same lodgings alternately day and night without knowledge of each other.


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* Reefs of Adelaide Island {{AdelaideIsland-geo-stub