Cape-Pigeon Rocks are twin rocky promontories on the western side of Watt Bay

Watt Bay

Watt Bay is a bay about 16 nautical miles wide indenting the coast between Garnet Point and Cape De la Motte. Discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who named it for W.A. Watt, Premier of Victoria in 1911....

, 3 miles (5 km) south of Garnet Point

Garnet Point

Garnet Point is a rocky coastal point consisting of garnet gneiss, located at the west side of the entrance to Watt Bay, in the George V Coast area of Antarctica. Garnet Point was discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, and named by the Australasian Antarctic...

. They were discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition

Australasian Antarctic Expedition

The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was an Australasian scientific team that explored part of Antarctica between 1911 and 1914. It was led by the Australian geologist Douglas Mawson, who was knighted for his achievements in leading the expedition. In 1910 he began to plan an expedition to chart...

 (1911–14) under Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...

, who gave the name because of the large Cape Pigeon rookery here. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

has added a hyphen between the first and second words in the specific part of the name to reduce ambiguity and emphasize the generic term "Rocks."