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Wiltshire Rocks

Coordinates: 67°30′S 63°7′E / 67.500°S 63.117°E / -67.500; 63.117
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Wiltshire Rocks (67°30′S 63°7′E / 67.500°S 63.117°E / -67.500; 63.117) is a group of rocks in the sea about 4.6 kilometres (2.5 nmi) east-northeast of Smith Rocks, 2.8 kilometres (1.5 nmi) east of Kitney Island, and 4.6 kilometres (2.5 nmi) northwest of Paterson Islands, off the coast of Mac. Robertson Land. First mapped from air photographs by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and named Spjotoyskjera. Renamed (1971) by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for A.C.W. Wiltshire, cook at Mawson Station in 1963.

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