4-584: Sørlle Rocks ( 60°37′S 46°15′W / 60.617°S 46.250°W / -60.617; -46.250 ) is a group of rocks, the highest 20 metres (66 ft) high, lying 7 nautical miles (13 km) west of Moreton Point , the west extremity of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands . It was named Tre Sten ("three stones") on Captain Petter Sørlle 's chart resulting from his 1912-13 survey. Later renamed for Sørlle by DI personnel on
8-613: A 1580 ha Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports large breeding colonies of seabirds , including some 125,000 pairs of chinstrap penguins and 125,000 pairs of southern fulmars . Snow petrels also nest there in smaller numbers. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Moreton Point" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . 60°37′S 46°2′W / 60.617°S 46.033°W / -60.617; -46.033 This South Orkney Islands location article
12-501: The Discovery II following their survey in 1933. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Sørlle Rocks" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . This South Orkney Islands location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Moreton Point Moreton Point is a point 1 nautical mile (2 km) north of Return Point at
16-404: The western end of Coronation Island , in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica . It was roughly charted by Captains George Powell and Nathaniel Palmer in 1821, and was named by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II who charted the islands in 1933. Moreton Point and an adjacent area of ice-free land, together with the nearby Larsen Islands , have been identified as
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