Murray Monolith

Murray Monolith

Murray Monolith is a detached part of Torlyn Mountain in eastern Antarctica. It was discovered during the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), led by Mawson, 1929–1931, and named after Sir George Murray, Chancellor of the University of Adelaide and a patron of the Expedition.[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 colony of 160,000 pairs of Antarctic petrels, as well as about twenty thousand Adelie penguins.[2]

References

  1. ^ Murray Monolith
  2. ^ http://www.ats.aq/documents/recatt/Att281_e.pdf Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 164

Coordinates: 67°47′S 66°53′E / 67.783°S 66.883°E / -67.783; 66.883


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