Cox Reef

Cox Reef

Cox Reef (67°45′S 69°5′W / 67.75°S 69.083°W / -67.75; -69.083) is a group of drying rocks lying northwest of Box Reef off the south end of Adelaide Island. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1963 for Able Seaman Edward F. Cox, a member of the Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit which first charted this feature in 1963.

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