Crab Stack (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Crab Stack (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:
off Black Point, Livingston Island, was charted by DI in 1935-37; called in error Scarborough Castle (q.v.), Roca Scarborough Castle, Roca Scarboroug [sic] Castle (France. SHM, 1937, p.396; Argentina. MM chart ZZ, 1948; MU-III, 1954); called descriptively Roca Fortín [=fort rock] (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.220; Pierrou, 1970, p.368); photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named Crab Stack after Benjamin Crab, Englishman who first started the manufacture of spermaceti candles in America, at Rhode Island in 1750 (APC, 1962, p.9; DOS 610 sheet W 62 60, 1968). Fortín Rock (USOO chart 1943, 1963; USBGN, 1965, p.97).
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