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Turpie Rock
Geographical feature in Antarctica From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Turpie Rock is a rock 1 m high, lying in the entrance to Hercules Bay off the north coast of South Georgia. Positioned by the SGS in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for the Turpie, which was for many years used by the South Georgia Whaling Co. as a hulk at Leith Harbor and is now sunk there.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Turpie Rock". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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