An Entity of Type: place, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Horrocks Block (71°35′S 68°22′W / 71.583°S 68.367°W) is a large rectangular outcrop that is composed mainly of sandstone, lying on the north side of Venus Glacier, 2 nautical miles (4 km) southwest of the Keystone Cliffs, on the east side of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys from satellite imagery supplied by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee from association with Venus Glacier after Jeremiah Horrocks, the British astronomer who predicted and first observed a transit of Venus, in 1639.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Der Horrocks Block ist ein großes und rechteckiges Kliff aus Sandstein an der Ostküste der westantarktischen Alexander-I.-Insel. Es ragt 3 km südwestlich der Keystone-Kliffs an der Nordflanke des Venus-Gletschers auf. Das britische kartierte es in Zusammenarbeit mit dem United States Geological Survey anhand von Satellitenaufnahmen der NASA. Das UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee benannte es 1974 in Anlehnung an die Benennung des Venus-Gletschers nach dem englischen Astronomen Jeremiah Horrocks (1619–1641), der als Erster den Venustransit berechnet hatte. (de)
  • Horrocks Block (71°35′S 68°22′W / 71.583°S 68.367°W) is a large rectangular outcrop that is composed mainly of sandstone, lying on the north side of Venus Glacier, 2 nautical miles (4 km) southwest of the Keystone Cliffs, on the east side of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys from satellite imagery supplied by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee from association with Venus Glacier after Jeremiah Horrocks, the British astronomer who predicted and first observed a transit of Venus, in 1639. Horrocks Block seems to have some relation with nearby Bandstone Block, they appear to be both large rectangular outcrops of sandstone. (en)
  • Horrocks Block är en kulle i Antarktis. Den ligger i Västantarktis. Argentina, Chile och Storbritannien gör anspråk på området. Toppen på Horrocks Block är 622 meter över havet. Terrängen runt Horrocks Block är huvudsakligen kuperad. Den högsta punkten i närheten är Mount Umbriel, 1 500 meter över havet, 15,0 kilometer väster om Horrocks Block. Trakten är obefolkad. Det finns inga samhällen i närheten. (sv)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 29698696 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 1184 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1085208756 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
georss:point
  • -71.58333333333333 -68.36666666666666
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Der Horrocks Block ist ein großes und rechteckiges Kliff aus Sandstein an der Ostküste der westantarktischen Alexander-I.-Insel. Es ragt 3 km südwestlich der Keystone-Kliffs an der Nordflanke des Venus-Gletschers auf. Das britische kartierte es in Zusammenarbeit mit dem United States Geological Survey anhand von Satellitenaufnahmen der NASA. Das UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee benannte es 1974 in Anlehnung an die Benennung des Venus-Gletschers nach dem englischen Astronomen Jeremiah Horrocks (1619–1641), der als Erster den Venustransit berechnet hatte. (de)
  • Horrocks Block är en kulle i Antarktis. Den ligger i Västantarktis. Argentina, Chile och Storbritannien gör anspråk på området. Toppen på Horrocks Block är 622 meter över havet. Terrängen runt Horrocks Block är huvudsakligen kuperad. Den högsta punkten i närheten är Mount Umbriel, 1 500 meter över havet, 15,0 kilometer väster om Horrocks Block. Trakten är obefolkad. Det finns inga samhällen i närheten. (sv)
  • Horrocks Block (71°35′S 68°22′W / 71.583°S 68.367°W) is a large rectangular outcrop that is composed mainly of sandstone, lying on the north side of Venus Glacier, 2 nautical miles (4 km) southwest of the Keystone Cliffs, on the east side of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys from satellite imagery supplied by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee from association with Venus Glacier after Jeremiah Horrocks, the British astronomer who predicted and first observed a transit of Venus, in 1639. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Horrocks Block (de)
  • Horrocks Block (en)
  • Horrocks Block (sv)
owl:sameAs
geo:geometry
  • POINT(-68.366668701172 -71.583335876465)
geo:lat
  • -71.583336 (xsd:float)
geo:long
  • -68.366669 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License