Stewart stacks
| Stewart stacks | ||
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| Waters | New Plymouth | |
| archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 38 ′ S , 61 ° 11 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
The Stewart Stacks are two distinctive surf pillars in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . To the south of New Plymouth Bay, they loom between Astor Island and Rugged Island .
The British seal hunter Robert Fildes (1793-1827) named them between 1820 and 1822 as Monuments ( English for monuments ). To avoid confusion with objects of the same name, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1958 to rename it. Since then, it has been named after Hampton Stewart, who was a member of the crew of the American sealer Jane Maria from New York City and, according to reports in the New York Gazette and The General Advertiser on May 16, 1821, was one of the first to have a map of the South Shetland Islands.
Web links
- Stewart Stacks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stewart Stacks on geographic.org (English)