Hornaday Rock
| Hornaday Rock | ||
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| Waters | Bird sound | |
| Archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 1 ′ S , 38 ° 1 ′ W | |
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The Hornaday Rock is a cliff rock off the western tip of South Georgia . In Bird Sound it is 1 km west-southwest of Cape Alexandra .
The name of the rock was first recorded on maps from the 1930s. The South Georgia Survey re- mapped it in its 1951-1957 survey campaign. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after the American zoologist William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937), director of the Bronx Zoo from 1896 to 1926, who had campaigned for the protection of fur seals from 1907 .
Web links
- Hornaday Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hornaday Rock on geographic.org (English)