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MCCALLIE ROCKS

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer (ID number 2457) and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (ID number 9214).

Latitude: 68° 18' 38.0" S    -68.311° Longitude: 78° 38' 36.6" E     78.643°

Two rocks about 1 km off the coast of Antarctica in the Vestfold Hills region. They are named for Michael McCallie, a helicopter pilot, who flew survey parties around the Vestfold Hills in 1978-79 in an exemplary manner and made the first landings by air on the rocks. The rocks are dark grey and rounded with diameters of about 100 m. Survey station NM/S/267 was established there in January 1979. This isolated pair of closely adjacent rocks lies in the sea off the ice-cliff coastline of Princess Elizabeth Land approximately 40.5 km north-east of Davis Station. The summit of the southern-most rock, upon which survey station NM/S/267, and to which the above WGS84 coordinates refer, was established in January, 1979, is 15.9 m above mean sea level. The summit of the northern-most rock, upon which survey station NM/S/271 was established, is 8.9 m above mean sea level. Survey station NM/S/271 lies on a true bearing of 11° 47′ distant 172.9 m from survey station NM/S/267.

These rocks form part of an extensive network of Adelie penguin breeding colonies along the ice-free rock areas of the Ingrid Christensen Coast, Princess Elizabeth Land.