Folger Rock () is a rock lying north of

Harmony Point Harmony Point is a point which lies close west of Harmony Cove and forms both the south side of the entrance to Malak Sechko Cove and the western extremity of Guangzhou Peninsula and Nelson Island (South Shetland Islands), Nelson Island, in the S ...

, Nelson Island, in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the n ...

. It was named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...

in 1961 for Tristan Folger, the Master of the American sealing vessel ''William and Nancy'' from

Nantucket Nantucket () is an island in the state of Massachusetts in the United States, about south of the Cape Cod peninsula. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck Island, Tuckernuck and Muskeget Island, Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and Co ...

, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21, operating from nearby

Harmony Cove Harmony Cove () is a cove entered between Harmony Point and The Toe on the west side of Nelson Island (South Shetland Islands), Nelson Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It was named by American sealers in about 1820 after the seali ...

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SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Rock formations of Antarctica {{NelsonIsland-geo-stub