Vietor Rock | |
Image Map Caption: | Location of Byers Peninsula in the South Shetland Islands |
Pushpin Map: | Antarctic Peninsula#Antarctica |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location on Antarctic Peninsula##Location in Antarctica |
Pushpin Map Relief: | yes |
Location: | Antarctica |
Coordinates: | -62.6831°N -61.0981°W |
Archipelago: | South Shetland Islands |
Population: | uninhabited |
Country: | Antarctica |
Treaty System: | Antarctic Treaty System |
Vietor Rock is a rock linked by a spit to Nikopol Point on the south coast of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers operating on Byers Peninsula.
The feature is named after Alexander O. Vietor, Curator of Maps, Yale University Library, who discovered the original logbooks of the American sealing vessels Hersilia, 1819–20, and Huron, 1820–21.[1]
The rock is located at -62.6831°N -61.0981°W which is 1.2km (00.7miles) south-southwest of Nikopol Point, 7.16km (04.45miles) northeast of President Head, Snow Island, 5.15km (03.2miles) east-northeast of Long Rock and 4.52km (02.81miles) east-southeast of Devils Point (British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009).