COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

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Simpson Rocks

Place ID: 13307
Name ID: 111193

Feature type: Rock

Origin

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:

• Simpson Rocks (Russia)
• Simpson Rocks (United States of America)
• Simpson, rocas (Argentina)
• Simpson, Rocas (Chile)

Narrative

rising 9m above sea level NE of Cape Melville, King George Island, were known to nineteenth-century sealers; charted by Weddell, probably in 1823, and named Simpsons Islands (Weddell, 1825a, map facing p.132). Simpsons Insel (Weddell, 1827, third end map). IÎle Simpson (d'Urville, 1838, map following p.1170). Isla Simpson (Spain. DH chart 458, 1861). Simpson Insel (Friederichsen, 1895, Tafel 7 facing p.304). Îles Simpson (Charcot, 1912, Pl.1). Simpson Rocks (Isle) (BA chart 3205, 1.iii.1929; Hill and others, chart, 1937b). Simpson Island (USHO chart 1132, 1930). Simpson Rock [sic] (Chaplin, 1932, p.301; BA, 1974, p.160; chart 3205, 16.vii.1976). Simpson Rocks (BA chart 3205, 25.iii.1937; [in 61°57'S 57°23'W] APC, 1955, p.19; [co-ordinates corrected] APC, 1977, p.30; BA, 1977, p.4). The rocks were recharted by DI in January 1937. Simson [sic] Rocks (Hill, 1937). Rocas Simpson (Argentina. MM chart 64, 1939; Pierrou, 1970, p.661; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.261). Simpsons Is. (Hobbs, 1939a, p.41). Simson [sic] Skjµrne (Hansen, chart 5, 1947a). Roca Simpson (Chile. DNH chart L, 1951). Roches Simpson (France. SHM, 1954, p.44). The rocks were photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956. Skaly Simpson (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.175).

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