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Gobanme Rock

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2020
Entity authorityQ5575402 ↗
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Gobamme Rock (碁盤目岩, Gobanme-iwa; 68°22′S 41°56′E) is an exposed rock standing on the coast between Kozō Rock and Byōbu Rock in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was mapped from surveys and air photos by the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, 1957–62, and named Gobanme-iwa (checkerboard rock).

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This article incorporates public domain material from "Gobanme Rock". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gobanme, Rock and Open-knowledge.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q5575402. Authority coordinates are -68.367, 41.933. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gobanme Rock” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.