Fortin skirt
| Fortin skirt | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 29 ′ S , 60 ° 44 ′ W | |
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The Fortín Rock ( Spanish Roca Fortín , ' fort rock' ; in the United Kingdom Crab Stack ) is a prominent surf pillar in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It looms in front of Livingston Island's Black Point .
The descriptive name of the rock goes back to participants in an Argentine Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1952 to 1953. On some maps it is confused with Scarborough Castle on the coast of Livingston Island. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the Spanish name to English in 1965. Named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee designation made in 1962, the British entrepreneur Benjamin Crab, of 1750 in Rhode Iceland for the first time from spermaceti made candles sales.
Web links
- Fortin rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fortín Rock on geographic.org (English)