Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Livonia Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Livonia 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:
rock awash on S side of Cape Melville, King George Island, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after the sealing ship Livonia (Capt. Nowell) from London, which visited the South Shetland Islands, 1821-22 (APC, 1960, p.5; DOS 610 sheet W 62 56, 1968).
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