Folger Rock
Folger Rock is a rock lying 2.5 nautical miles north of Harmony Point, Nelson Island, in the South Shetland Islands. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 for Tristan Folger, the Master of the American sealing vessel William and Nancy from Nantucket, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21, operating from nearby Harmony Cove.- Hill
- …is also known as “Folger”
- Description: rock in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.26229° or 62° 15′ 44″ south
Longitude
-59.2306° or 59° 13′ 50″ west
Open location code
3892PQQ9+3Q
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Folger Rock” goes by many names.
FolgerCebuano
福爾傑岩Chinese
FolgerDutch
Folger RockLadin
Folger RockNorwegian Bokmål
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