Stackpole Rocks

Stackpole Rocks
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates62°40′40.8″S 60°57′26.6″W / 62.678000°S 60.957389°W / -62.678000; -60.957389
ArchipelagoSouth Shetland Islands
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Populationuninhabited
South Beaches from Basalt Lake vicinity on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, with Clark Nunatak, Ritli Hill, Elephant Point and Telish Rock in the left background, Stackpole Rocks on the right and Deception Island on the horizon
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

Stackpole Rocks is a group of rocks, the largest of them linked by a spit to the east extremity of South Beaches in Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The feature is named after Edouard Stackpole, Curator of the Marine Historical Association, Mystic, Connecticut, historian of early American whaling and sealing in the South Shetlands.