Napier skirt
| Napier skirt | ||
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| Waters | King George Bay | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 10 ′ S , 58 ° 26 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 5 m | |
The Napier rock is a cliff rocks in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is 2.8 km east-southeast of Point Thomas in Admiralty Bay on King George Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1960 for Ronald G. Napier (1925-1956) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), who worked in 1955 at the FIDS station on Signy Island , then in 1955 the station in Admiralty Bay until he drowned on March 24, 1956 in the dark when his dinghy capsized in Admiralty Bay.
Web links
- Napier rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Napier Rock on geographic.org (English)