Chapman Rocks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Chapman Rocks (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:
in Hero Bay, Livingston Island, were photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after Thomas Chapman, English trunk-maker of Southwark, who in 1795 first discovered a method of processing fur seal skins for use in the hat trade, thus initiating the industry in London (APC, 1962, p.8; DOS 610 sheet W 62 60, 1968).
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