Shearer Stack
Shearer Stack is a rock stack lying 1.5 miles southwest of False Round Point, off the north coast of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for the American sealing vessel Charles Shearer from Nantucket, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1874–75.Shearer Stack
- Type: Island
- Description: rock formation of the South Shetland Islands
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-61.92268° or 61° 55′ 22″ south
Longitude
-58.04428° or 58° 2′ 39″ west
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
38C33XG4+W7
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Shearer Stack” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Shearer”
- Chinese: “希勒岩”
- Dutch: “Shearer”
- German: “Shearer Stack”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shearer Stack”
- Spanish: “Rocas Shearer”
- Spanish: “Shearer, rocas”
- Swedish: “Shearer Stack”
- Swedish: “Shearer”
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