Horatio Stump (62°12′47″S 59°00′21″W / 62.21292°S 59.00583°W / -62.21292; -59.00583) is a flat-topped hill, 165 metres (540 ft) high, lying immediately east of Flat Top Peninsula at the southwest end of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for the sealing vessel Horatio (Captain Weeks) from London, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ "Horatio Stump". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
  2. ↑ Alberts, Fred G., ed. (June 1995). Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (second ed.). United States Board on Geographic Names. p. 345. Retrieved 2012-04-05.

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