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[[File:Armbruster-Rocks.png|350px|thumb|The Armbruster Rocks as viewed from a helicopter during a 2006 research expedition.]]
The '''Armbruster Rocks''' (73°57′S 116°49′W) are exposed rocks on the west side of [[Wright Island]], 9 nautical miles (17 km) southwest of [[Cape Felt]], off the [[Bakutis Coast]] of [[Westarctica]].

==Discovery and name==
The rocks were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from [[U.S. Navy]] aerial photographs taken between 1959–67. They were named by the Advisory Committee on [[Antarctic]] Names after Lieutenant Robert B. Armbruster, a U.S. Navy Communications Officer at Christchurch, New Zealand during Operation Deep Freeze in the 1963-64 season.

==Life Peer==
On 13 August 2018, James Schultz, the husband of the Viscountess of [[Clausen Glacier|Clausen]], was made a [[Peerage of Westarctica|Life Peer]] with the title Baron of Armbruster. His title is derived from these rocks.

[[Category:Geography of Westarctica]]

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