Vietor Rock

Vietor Rock
Location of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Vietor Rock
Location of Vietor Rock
Vietor Rock
Vietor Rock (Antarctica)
Geography
Location Antarctica
Coordinates 62°40′59″S 61°05′53″W / 62.68306°S 61.09806°W / -62.68306; -61.09806
Archipelago South Shetland Islands
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population uninhabited

Vietor Rock is a rock linked by a spit to Nikopol Point on the south coast of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers operating on Byers Peninsula.

The feature is named after Alexander O. Vietor, Curator of Maps, Yale University Library, who discovered the original logbooks of the American sealing vessels Hersilia, 1819–20, and Huron, 1820-21.

Location

The rock is located at 62°40′59″S 61°05′53″W / 62.68306°S 61.09806°W / -62.68306; -61.09806 which is 1.2 km (0.75 mi) south-southwest of Nikopol Point, 7.16 km (4.45 mi) northeast of President Head, Snow Island, 5.15 km (3.20 mi) east-northeast of Long Rock and 4.52 km (2.81 mi) east-southeast of Devils Point (British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009).

See also

Maps

  • Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
  • L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

    Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.


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