Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Stackpole Rocks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Stackpole Rocks (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 E end of South Beaches, Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, following air photography by FIDASE, 1956-57, and in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, were named after Edouard A. Stackpole (b.1905), Curator, Marine Historical Association, Mystic, Conn., from 1953; historian of early American sealing and whaling in the South Shetland Islands (Stackpole, 1955) (APC, 1959a, p.11; DOS 610 sheet W 62 60, 1968).
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