Nancy Rock
| Nancy Rock | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 13 ′ S , 59 ° 6 ′ W | |
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The Nancy skirt is a cliff rocks in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is 3 km west of the Flat Top Peninsula of King George Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on 1961 after the US sealer Nancy from Salem under Captain Benjamin Upton, who operated in the waters around the South Shetland Islands between 1820 and 1822.
Web links
- Nancy Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nancy Rock on geographic.org (English)