Grace Rock

62°21′32.3″S 58°59′22.5″W / 62.358972°S 58.989583°W / -62.358972; -58.989583^[1]AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

Grace Rock is a rock in Bransfield Strait, Antarctica lying 1.72 kilometres (0.93 nmi) 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 (Captain H. Rowe) from Plymouth, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821–22.^[2]

Map

• South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 - W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968.

References

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Grace Rock". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.