Cordall Stacks

Cordall Stacks

Cordall Stacks (54°0′S 38°4′W / 54°S 38.067°W / -54; -38.067) is a two conspicuous rock stacks, the eastern one joined to Bird Island by a low isthmus, lying on the northwest side of the island 0.3 nautical miles (0.6 km) northwest of Jordan Cove. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Peter A. Cordall, member of the South Georgia Biological Expedition, 1958-59, who made a plane-table survey of Bird Island.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Cordall Stacks" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


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