Nancy Rock

Nancy Rock () is a rock lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) west of

Flat Top Peninsula Flat Top Peninsula is a small, flat-topped peninsula north of the south-western extremity of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The peninsula was named on a chart based upon a survey by Discovery Investigations The D ...

, King George 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 ...

. Named by the

United Kingdom 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) and ...

(UK-APC) in 1961 after the American sealing vessel Nancy (Captain Benjamin Upton) from Salem, MA, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–22. Rock formations of King George Island (South Shetland Islands) {{KingGeorgeIslandAQ-geo-stub