Hetty Rock
| Hetty Rock | ||
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| Waters | Walker Bay | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 40 ′ S , 60 ° 44 ′ W | |
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The Hetty Rock is a cliff rock in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is the largest of a group of rocks in Walker Bay on Livingston Island off John Beach .
Scientists at the British Discovery Investigations mapped it and named it descriptively as Low Rock ( English for low rock ). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided to rename it in 1958. The new namesake is the sealer Hetty under Captain Ralph Bond from London , who operated in the waters around the South Shetland Islands between 1820 and 1821.
Web links
- Hetty Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hetty Rock on geographic.org (English)