Vietor Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Vietor 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 South Beaches, Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after Alexander O. Vietor, Curator of Maps, Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., who discovered the original log-books of the American brig Hersilia (Hersilia Cove, q.v.), 1819-20, and sealing ship Huron (Huron Glacier, q.v.), 1820-21 (APC, 1959a, p.12; DOS 610 sheet W 62 60, 1968). Roca Vietor (González-Ferrán and others, 1970, map p.47). Victor [sic] Rock, in error (BA, 1974, p.169).
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