Fitton Rock
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Fitton Rock (67°46′S 68°34′W / 67.767°S 68.567°W / -67.767; -68.567 ) is a flat-topped rock lying southeast of Cape Alexandra, off the south end of Adelaide Island. It was first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963 for Gordon F. Fitton, a British Antarctic Survey general assistant at Adelaide Station, 1961–62, and a member of the first party to winter on Adelaide Island.[1]
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[edit ]- ^ "Fitton Rock". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2012年03月26日.
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