Henfield Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Henfield 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:
off-shore NE of Catharina Point (q.v.), Robert Island, and E of Heywood Island, was known to the nineteenth-century sealers and sometimes included under the name Powels Islands or Heywood Islands (Heywood Island, q.v.); following air photography by FIDASE, 1956-57, and in association with the names of sealers in this area, named Henfield Rock after Capt. Joseph Henfield, Master of the American sealing ship Catharina from Stonington, who visited the South Shetland Islands, 1820-21 (Catharina Point, q.v.) (APC, 1962, p.16; DOS 610 sheet W 62 58, 1968).
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