# Stackpole Rocks

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{{Short description|Group of rocks in Antarctica}}
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[[File:Byers Peninsula, South Beaches.jpg|thumb|[South Beaches](/source/South_Beaches_(Livingston_Island)) from [Basalt Lake](/source/Basalt_Lake) vicinity on [Byers Peninsula](/source/Byers_Peninsula), [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island), with [Clark Nunatak](/source/Clark_Nunatak), [Ritli Hill](/source/Ritli_Hill), [Elephant Point](/source/Elephant_Point) and [Telish Rock](/source/Telish_Rock) in the left background, Stackpole Rocks on the right and [Deception Island](/source/Deception_Island) on the horizon]]
thumb|Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
'''Stackpole Rocks''' is a group of rocks, the largest of them linked by a spit to the east extremity of [South Beaches](/source/South_Beaches%2C_Livingston_Island) in [Byers Peninsula](/source/Byers_Peninsula), [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island) in the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica).  The area was visited by early 19th century [sealers](/source/seal_hunting).

The feature is named after Edouard Stackpole, Curator of the Marine Historical Association, [Mystic, Connecticut](/source/Mystic%2C_Connecticut), historian of early American whaling and sealing in the South Shetlands.

==Location==
The rocks are centred at {{coord|62|40|40.8|S|60|57|26.6|W|}} which is {{convert|6.83|km|mi|abbr=on}} east of [Nikopol Point](/source/Nikopol_Point), {{convert|3.38|km|mi|abbr=on}} southeast of [Dometa Point](/source/Dometa_Point), {{convert|1.4|km|mi|2|abbr=on}} west-southwest of [Rish Point](/source/Rish_Point) and {{convert|5.36|km|mi|abbr=on}} west-northwest of [Elephant Point](/source/Elephant_Point) (British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2009).

== See also ==
* [Composite Antarctic Gazetteer](/source/Composite_Antarctic_Gazetteer)
* [List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S](/source/List_of_Antarctic_and_sub-Antarctic_islands)
* [SCAR](/source/Scientific_Committee_on_Antarctic_Research)
* [Territorial claims in Antarctica](/source/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica)

==Maps==
* L.L. Ivanov. [http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands]. Scale 1:120000 topographic map.  Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.  {{ISBN|978-954-92032-6-4}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=111355 Stackpole Rocks.] [Composite Antarctic Gazetteer](/source/Composite_Antarctic_Gazetteer)

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Category:Rock formations of Livingston Island

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