Nancy Rock
Nancy Rock is a rock lying 2 nautical miles west of Flat Top Peninsula, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 after the American sealing vessel Nancy from Salem, MA, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–22.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Akin Island and Fregata Island.
Akin Island
Islet
Akin Island is a wide, rocky island 280 m long in southeast-northwest direction and 100 m lying off the north coast of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is “named after Akin Point on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.”… Akin Island is situated 1¼ km south of Nancy Rock.
Fregata Island
Islet
Fregata Island is the 480 m long in southeast-northwest direction and 230 m wide rocky island lying off the north coast of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Fregata Island is situated 1½ km south of Nancy Rock.
Kondor Island
Islet
Kondor Island is the 320 m long in west–east direction and 140 m wide rocky island lying off the north coast of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Kondor Island is situated 2 km south of Nancy Rock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Villa Las Estrellas and President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base.
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.
President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base
Neighborhood
Photo: Mefisto29, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva is the most important Antarctic base of Chile. It is located at Fildes Peninsula, an ice-free area, in front of Fildes Bay, at the west end of King George Island, South Shetland Islands. President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base is situated 7 km east of Nancy Rock.
Nancy Rock
- Type: Islet
- Description: South Shetland Islands rock
- Categories: mountain, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-62.21709° or 62° 13′ 2″ southLongitude
-59.10064° or 59° 6′ 2″ westOpen location code
3892QVMX+5POpenStreetMap ID
way 1123921913OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletWikidata ID
Q6962942
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Nancy Rock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Nancy Rock”
- Chinese: “南希岩”
- Dutch: “Nancy Rock”
- French: “Rocher Nancy”
- German: “Nancy Rock”
- German: “Nancyfelsen”
- Ladin: “Nancy Rock”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nancy Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nancy Rock”
- Spanish: “Roca Nancy”
- Swedish: “Nancy Rock”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nancy Rock”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.