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Map of the Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island with the Vietor Rock
Map of the Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island with the Vietor Rock
Waters Bransfield Street
Archipelago South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 62 ° 41 ′  S , 61 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 41 ′  S , 61 ° 6 ′  W
Vietor Rock (South Shetland Islands)
Vietor skirt

The Vietor Rock is a cliff rock in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located in front of Nikopol Point on the south coast of the Byers Peninsula in the far west of Livingston Island , with which it is connected via a low isthmus .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1958 after Alexander Orr Vietor (1913-1981), curator for maps at Yale University , who had discovered the logbooks of the seal- catching ships Herselia and Huron from 1819 to 1820 and from 1820 to 1821, respectively operated in the waters around the South Orkney Islands.

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