Holgate Shoal
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 59 ′ 1 ″ S , 38 ° 17 ′ 1 ″ W | |
| Waters 1 | South Atlantic | |
Holgate Shoal is an area of shallows in the Willis Islands group, part of the South Georgian archipelago . It is east of the Ramp Rocks and 2.5 km northwest of Main Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the area in 1964 after Able Seaman Ralph Alan Holgate (* 1939), who first mapped it in 1961 from the ship HMS Owen .
Web links
- Holgate Shoal in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Holgate Shoal on geographic.org (English)