Areta Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Areta 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:
rising to 785m in Panzarini Hills, Argentina Range, was possibly the feature seen from the air on the first Argentine flight to the South Pole in January 1962 and called Nunatak Puerto Belgrano after the Argentine naval base (Argentina. MM, NM 20/i.xi.1964; Pierrou, 1970, 607); following survey on US Pensacola Mountains Project (Huffman and Schmidt, 1966), named Areta Rock after Tte (C) Eduardo Ferrin Areta, Argentine Officer-in-charge, "Ellsworth Station", winter 1961 (USGS sheet SU 21-25/11, 1968; APC, 1974, p.3).
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