The Barros Rocks () are a group of rocks between the
Berthelot Islands
The Berthelot Islands are a group of rocky islands, the largest long, lying south-west of Deliverance Point, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. They were discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste ...
and the
Argentine Islands, lying southwest of
Cape Tuxen
Cape Tuxen () is a rocky cape forming the south side of the entrance to Waddington Bay on Kyiv Peninsula, the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered and named by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition
The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 ...
off the west coast of
Graham Land. They were discovered by the
French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10
The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.
First expedition
In 1772, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec and the naturalist Jean Guillaume Bruguière sailed to the Antarctic region in search of the fabl ...
, under
Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named after Captain
Barros Cobra, a Brazilian naval officer at
Rio de Janeiro, who assisted the expedition.
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References
Rock formations of the Wilhelm Archipelago
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