Name details

Grace Rock

Grace Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Grace Rock (The name as it would appear on a map)

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United States Gazetteer Id 125857

Feature type: Rock (5)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Grace Rock (United Kingdom)

Narrative

Rock lying nearly 1 mi off the S coast of Nelson Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1961 after the British sealing vessel Grace (Captain Rowe) from Plymouth, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821-22.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

62° 22' 00.0" S

-62.36667°

Unknown precision

Longitude:

59° 01' 00.0" W

-59.01667°

Unknown precision

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown

Source Name:

Unknown

Source Identifier:

Source Scale:

Unknown

Source Institution:

Unknown

Source Person:

Unknown

Source Publisher:

Unknown

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Unknown

Date approved:

1-Jan-1965

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