Liberty Rocks | |
Image Map Caption: | Location of Nelson Strait in the South Shetland Islands |
Pushpin Map: | Antarctic Peninsula#Antarctica |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location on Antarctic Peninsula##Location in Antarctica |
Pushpin Map Relief: | yes |
Location: | Antarctica |
Coordinates: | -62.3141°N -59.4623°W |
Archipelago: | South Shetland Islands |
Population: | Uninhabited |
Country: | None |
Treaty System: | Antarctic Treaty System |
Liberty Rocks is a group of four prominent adjacent rocks lying at the north entrance to Nelson Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and extending 430by. The area was visited by early 19th-century sealers.
The feature is named after the British sealing vessel Liberty under Captain Peacock that visited the South Shetlands in 1821–22.
The rocks are centred at -62.3141°N -59.4623°W which is 3.95km (02.45miles) northeast of Newell Point, Robert Island, 1.65km (01.03miles) southeast of Mellona Rocks, 11.38km (07.07miles) west by south of Harmony Point, Nelson Island and 62NaN2 northwest of Makresh Rocks (British mapping in 1822, 1962 and 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2009).