Scarborough Castle (Livingston Island)
| Scarborough Castle | ||
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| height | 30 m | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 27 ′ 59 ″ S , 60 ° 48 ′ 17 ″ W | |
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Scarborough Castle is a 30 m high ledge with vertical flanks on the north coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises near the northeast entrance to Shirreff Cove .
The British seal hunter Robert Fildes (1793-1827) mapped the rock in 1821 and named it after Scarborough Castle in North Yorkshire because of the similarity of its shape .
Web links
- Scarborough Castle in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scarborough Castle on geographic.org (English)