Denai's stack
| Denai's stack | ||
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| Waters | Admiralty Bay , Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 8 ′ S , 58 ° 29 ′ W | |
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The Denais Stack is a distinctive surf pillar ( English stack ) in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 2.5 km north of Point Thomas on the west side of Admiralty Bay from King George Island .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named a bay on the north bank of the Ezcurra Fjord as Anse Denais . Namesake is a sailor of the research ship Pourquoi-Pas? . This bay could not be identified in later investigations, so that the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the name to the breakwater described here on September 23, 1960.
Web links
- Denais stack in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Denais Stack on geographic.org (English)