Lynx Rocks [SEP] continent
Lynx Rocks
Lynx Rocks is a group of rocks in southwestern Hero Bay on the north side of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers operating from nearby Blythe Bay.
The feature is named after the Australian sealing vessel "Lynx" under Captain Richard Siddins that visited the South Shetland in 1820-21 and 1821–22, wintering in the Falkland Islands in 1821.
Location.
The rocks are centred at which is west of Siddins Point, north-northeast
glaciers. The southern populations gradually evolved into the modern bobcat ("L. rufus"). Later, when the continent was invaded by the Eurasian lynx for a second time, the populations that settled in the northern part of the continent, now devoid of glaciers, evolved into the Canada lynx. The 2006 study gave the phylogenetic relationships of the Canada lynx as follows:
Physical characteristics.
The Canada lynx is a medium-sized cat, similar in many ways to the bobcat. This lynx is between in head