Murray Monolith

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Murray Monolith is a detached part of Torlyn Mountain in eastern Antarctica. It was discovered during the second BANZARE voyage in 1930, and named after Sir George Murray. [1]

As one of the very few pieces of exposed rock on the East Antarctic coast, along with the nearby Scullin Monolith, it holds the greatest concentration of breeding seabird colonies in East Antarctica, including a large colony comprising about a third of the world's Antarctic petrels, as well as about twenty thousand Adelie penguins.