Grace Rock

Location of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°21′32.3″S58°59′22.5″W / 62.358972°S 58.989583°W /-62.358972; -58.989583[1]
Administration
Administered under theAntarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Grace Rock is a rock inBransfield Strait,Antarctica, lying 1.72 kilometres (0.93 nmi) off the southeast coast ofNelson Island in theSouth Shetland Islands. It was named by theUK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 after the British sealing vesselGrace (CaptainH. Rowe) fromPlymouth, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821–22.^[2]

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

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

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