Weeks Stack
Weeks Stack is a sea stack lying off the north tip of Nelson Island in the northern approach to Fildes Strait, in the South Shetland Islands. Situated 635 m north-northeast of Cariz Point.Places of Interest
Highlights include Horatio Stump and Nancy Rock.
Horatio Stump
Peak
Horatio Stump is a flat-topped hill, 165 metres high, lying immediately east of Flat Top Peninsula at the southwest end of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. Horatio Stump is situated 2½ km northeast of Weeks Stack.
Nancy Rock
Islet
Nancy Rock is a rock in the South Shetland Islands located 2 nautical miles west of Flat Top Peninsula, King George Island. The rock was named in 1961 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the American sailing vessel Nancy, from Salem, Massachusetts, that visited the South Shetland Islands around 1820–22 while captained by Benjamin Upton, namesake of Upton Rock. Nancy Rock is situated 3 km west of Weeks Stack.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Villa Las Estrellas.
Villa Las Estrellas
Photo: SnowSwan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Villa Las Estrellas is a Chilean civilian settlement on King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula. It consists of some dozen prefabs but is a vital service hub for all the bases on the island.
Weeks Stack
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the South Shetland Islands
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Weeks Stack” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Weeks Stack”
- Chinese: “威克斯岩”
- Dutch: “Weeks Stack”
- French: “Stack de Weeks”
- German: “Weeks Stack”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Weeks Stack”
- Spanish: “Farallón de Weeks”
- Swedish: “Weeks Stack”
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