Scapa Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Scapa 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.
between Saddle Island and Weddell Islands, N of Laurie Island, was charted by DI in 1933; following geological work by a USARP field party from Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, NY, which made the first landing on the rock, 26 January 1977, named after the British whale catcher Scapa (Kapt. Gustav Mathisen) which was lost off Laurie Island, 23 January 1928, with only two survivors out of a crew of seventeen (APC, 1980, p.5; Dalziel and others, 1981, Fig.2, p.17).
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