Baldred skirt

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Baldred skirt
Map of Laurie Island with Fitchie Bay (right) where Baldred Rock is located
Map of Laurie Island with Fitchie Bay (right) where Baldred Rock is located
Waters Fitchie Bay
Archipelago South Orkney Islands
Geographical location 60 ° 44 ′  S , 44 ° 26 ′  W Coordinates: 60 ° 44 ′  S , 44 ° 26 ′  W
Baldred Rock (Antarctica)
Baldred skirt

The Baldred rock is a Rifffelsen near the island Laurie Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is located in the middle of Fitchie Bay south of the coast of the Ferrier Peninsula and 1.2 km east-southeast of Graptolite Island .

The rock was mapped during the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) under the direction of the polar explorer William Speirs Bruce and later also named because of its resemblance to the Scottish rock island Bass Rock . However, since another island in the group of West Antarctic Joinville Islands bears this name, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1954 to rename it. The new namesake is the canonized northern Umbrian abbot Baldred of Tyninghame († 757), who lived as a hermit on the above-mentioned Scottish rocky island.

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