Twitcher skirt

Twitcher skirt
	Twitcher Rock as seen from Hewison Point on Morrell Island (left in the background)
Waters	Douglas Strait
Archipelago	South Sandwich Islands
Geographical location	59 ° 27 '22.2 " S , 27 ° 17' 1.9" W Coordinates: 59 ° 27 '22.2 " S , 27 ° 17' 1.9" W.
length	140 m
width	100 m
surface	1 ha
Highest elevation	55 m
Residents	uninhabited
	Roca Twitcher on the Argentinian sketch map

The Twitcher Rock is a 55 m high cliff rock in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands . In Douglas Strait, it rises 1.1 km southeast of Morrell Island .

Participants in the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821) led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovered it in 1820. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped it in 1930. The latter named it after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), first Lord of the Admiralty and also known as Jemmy Twitcher.

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