Thomson Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Thomson 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 c. 900m E of Mount Bagshawe, George VI Sound, following surveys by BAS from "Stonington Island" and "Fossil Bluff", 1962-72, was named after Dr Michael Robert Alexander Thomson (b. 1942), BAS geologist from 1963; Adelaide, 1964, "Fossil Bluff", 1964-65, and "Stonington Island", 1965-66; Chief Geologist, BAS, from 1984 (APC, 1977, p.33; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/14, 2-DOS 1984).
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