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[edit] Rock X

'''Rock X''' ({{coor dm|66|20|S|136|42|E|}}) is a prominent offshore rock 0.4 nautical miles (0.7 km) long, lying close inside the east side of the entrance to [[Victor Bay]], 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) northwest of [[Gravenoire Rock]]. Photographed from the air by [[U.S. Navy Operation Highjump]], 1946-47. Charted by the [[French Antarctic Expedition]] under Marret, 1952-53. So named because the rock was indicated by a cross or "X" mark in selected prints of the [[Operation Highjump]] photographs for the purpose of identifying it to the French Antarctic Expedition party which established an astronomical control station there.

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[edit] Xanadu Hills

'''Xanadu Hills''' ({{coor dm|78|11|S|163|32|E|}}) is a ridge of hills lying between [[Ward Valley]] and the [[Alph River]] in [[Victoria Land]]. Named by [[New Zealand Geographic Board]] (NZGB) in 1994 in connection with the adjacent Alph River, an earlier name inspired by a poem of [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]].

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[edit] Xanthus Spur

'''Xanthus Spur''' ({{coor dm|64|33|S|63|30|W|}}) is a mainly ice-covered spur extending northwestward from [[Mount Priam]] for 3 nautical miles (6 km) in the [[Trojan Range]] of [[Anvers Island]], in the [[Palmer Archipelago]]. Surveyed by the [[Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey]] (FIDS) in 1955 and named by the [[United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee]] (UK-APC) for Xanthus, son of Zeus and the god of one of the two chief rivers of the Trojan plain.

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