Heed Rock

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Heed Rock ( 64°59′S63°47′W / 64.983°S 63.783°W / -64.983; -63.783 Coordinates: 64°59′S63°47′W / 64.983°S 63.783°W / -64.983; -63.783 ) is a very small rock, awash at high water and virtually hidden from sight, lying 1 nautical mile (2 km) south of Brown Island in the Wauwermans Islands in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica. It was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950, but not named. It was surveyed by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1956–57, and so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee as a caution to mariners. [1]

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Brown Island in the Antarctic is a small, brown, almost snow-free island in the southeastern part of the Wauwermans Islands, 2 nautical miles (4 km) southwest of Wednesday Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and so named because its brown color distinguished it from adjacent snow-capped islands.

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