Grace Rock
Grace Rock is a rock in Bransfield Strait, Antarctica, lying 1.72 kilometres off the southeast coast of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 after the British sealing vessel Grace from Plymouth, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821–22.Grace Rock
- Reef
- Description: rock in Antarctica
- Categories
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.35896° or 62° 21′ 32″ south
Longitude
-58.98952° or 58° 59′ 22″ west
Open location code
3893J2R6+C5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=reef
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Grace Rock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Grace Rock”
- Chinese: “格雷斯岩”
- Czech: “Skála Grace”
- Dutch: “Grace Rock”
- French: “Rocher Grace”
- German: “Grace Rock”
- German: “Gracefelsen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grace Rock”
- Portuguese: “Rochedo Grace”
- Spanish: “Roca Grace”
- Swedish: “Grace Rock”
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