Jacquinot Rocks

The Jacquinot Rocks (63°26′S 58°24′W / 63.433°S 58.400°W / -63.433; -58.400Coordinates: 63°26′S 58°24′W / 63.433°S 58.400°W / -63.433; -58.400) are a group of rocks about midway between the Hombron Rocks and Cape Ducorps and 1 mile (1.6 km) off the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. They were charted in 1946 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who named the rocks for Honoré Jacquinot, a surgeon with the French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville which explored this coast in 1838.^[1]

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Jacquinot Rocks" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).