Sawert Rocks is a group of rocks east-northeast of
Azimuth Island
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, and about southwest of the
Hansen Rocks, in the northeast part of
Holme Bay
Holme Bay is a bay in Antarctica in Mac. Robertson Land, wide, containing many islands, indenting the coast north of the Framnes Mountains. Holme Bay is largely Antarctic oasis, snow-free and was mapped by Norway, Norwegian cartographers from ae ...
,
Mac. Robertson Land
Mac. Robertson Land is the portion of Antarctica lying southward of the coast between William Scoresby Bay and Cape Darnley. It is located at . In the east, Mac. Robertson Land includes the Prince Charles Mountains. It was named by the Britis ...
. Plotted from photos taken from ANARE (
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
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) aircraft in 1958. Named by
Antarctic Names Committee of Australia
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(ANCA) for
A. Sawert, radio officer at
Mawson Station
Mawson Station, commonly called Mawson, is one of three permanent bases and research outposts in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). Mawson lies in Holme Bay in Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica in the Australian ...
in 1959. Just to the east of the Sawert Rocks lies
Nella Rock.
Rock formations of Mac. Robertson Land
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