Baldred skirt
Baldred skirt | ||
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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 | |
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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.
Web links
- Baldred rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Baldred Rock on geographic.org (English)