Upton Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Upton Rock (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Rock
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
submerged rock off N coast of Nelson Island, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956; in association with the names of ninteenth-century sealers in this area, named after Capt. Benjamin Upton, Master of the American sealing ship Nancy (Nancy Rock, q.v.), from Salem, Mass., who visted the South Shetland Islands, 1821-22 (APC, 1962, p.32; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962).
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