Castle Rock (Antarctica) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Castle Rock is a bold rock crag, 415 metre high, standing 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Hut Point on the central ridge of Hut Point Peninsula

Hut Point Peninsula

Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow land mass from 2 to 3 miles wide and 15 miles long, projecting southwest from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island....

, Ross Island

Ross Island

Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound.-Geography:...

. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott

Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...

, who so named it because of its shape.

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