The Hydrurga Rocks (64°8′S 61°37′W / 64.133°S 61.617°W / -64.133; -61.617) are a group of rocks lying east of Two Hummock Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. They were photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1955–57, and were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 after Hydrurga leptonyx, the leopard seal.[1]

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  1. "Hydrurga Rocks". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-07-05.

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