Weeks Stack

Weeks Stack is a sea stack lying off the north tip of in the northern approach to , in the . Situated 635 m north-northeast of Cariz Point.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Horatio Stump and Nancy Rock.

Peak
is a flat-topped hill, 165 metres high, lying immediately east of at the southwest end of in the .

Islet
is a rock in the located 2 nautical miles west of , King George Island. The rock was named in 1961 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the American sailing vessel Nancy, from , that visited the South Shetland Islands around 1820–22 while captained by Benjamin Upton, namesake of .

Islet
is the rocky island off the north coast of in the , extending 310 m in southeast-northwest direction and 250 m in southwest-northeast direction.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Villa Las Estrellas and President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base.

is a civilian settlement on King George Island, the largest of the off the Antarctic Peninsula. It consists of some dozen prefabs but is a vital service hub for all the bases on the island.

Neighborhood
Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva is the most important Antarctic base of . It is located at , an ice-free area, in front of , at the west end of , .

Weeks Stack

Latitude
-62.2273° or 62° 13′ 38″ south
Longitude
-59.0475° or 59° 2′ 51″ west
Elevation
58 metres (190 feet)
Open location code
3892QXF3+32
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10272413803
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Wiki­data ID
Q15711814
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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: Yingbin Dao
  • Chinese: 威克斯岩
  • Chinese: 迎賓島
  • Czech: Hromada Weeks
  • Dutch: Weeks Stack
  • French: Stack de Weeks
  • German: Weeks Stack
  • German: Weekspfeiler
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Weeks Stack
  • Spanish: Farallón de Weeks
  • Swedish: Weeks Stack

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