Watson Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Watson Rock (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Rock
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.
A prominent rock located at the northern end of Fairchild Beach, eastern Heard Island.
George Watson was one of the survivors of the shipwreck of the whaling bark Trinity which ran aground at Heard Island near Elephant Spit on 17 October 1880. A party, including Watson and sailor Bernard Kelly, set out for Skua Beach in search of sustenance. However, both men died from exposure during a storm at Stephenson Glacier, and were buried in a single grave on Skua Beach.
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