Runciman Rock () is a rock marked by breakers, lying 0.1 nautical miles (0.2 km) east of
Black Island at the southeast approach to
Black Island Channel in the
Argentine Islands
The Argentine Islands are a group of islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago of Antarctica, situated southwest of Petermann Island, and northwest of Cape Tuxen on Kyiv Peninsula in Graham Land. They were discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition ...
. Charted in 1935 by the
British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill, who named it for
Philip Runciman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of
Whites Southampton Yachtbuilding and
Engineering Company Limited
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, where the ship Penola was refitted before sailing south in 1934.
Rock formations of the Wilhelm Archipelago
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