Rowett Island (South Shetland Islands)
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Rowett Island is a rocky
Rock (geology)
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 island 0.5 mile (0.80467 km) long, lying immediately off Cape Lookout
Cape Lookout (South Shetland Islands)
This article is about the Cape Lookout on Elephant Island. See Cape Lookout for other places of a similar name.Cape Lookout or Cabo Fossatti or Cabo Vigia or Cabo Vig¿lante is a steep cape/bluff, 240 m high, marking the southern extremity of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands. Cape...

, Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

. Rowett Island is located at 61°17′S 55°13′W. Rowett Island was known to both American
United States
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 and British
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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 sealers
Seal hunting
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. The hunt is currently practiced in five countries: Canada, where most of the world's seal hunting takes place, Namibia, the Danish region of Greenland, Norway and Russia...

 as early as 1822. Rowett Island was named by members of a British
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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 expedition (1921-1922) under Ernest Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE was a notable explorer from County Kildare, Ireland, who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration...

 for John Quiller Rowett
John Quiller Rowett
John Quiller Rowett was a British businessman who made a fortune in the spirits industry. He had a desire, however, to do more than make money, and in the years after the First World War he was a notable contributor to public and charitable causes...

, chief patron of the expedition.

See also

  • Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
  • List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
  • List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
  • SCAR
    Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
    The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research is an interdisciplinary body of the International Council for Science . It was established in February 1958 to continue the international coordination of Antarctic scientific activities that had begun during the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58...

  • Territorial claims in Antarctica
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