Fantome Rock () is a dangerous rock in the middle of
Bird Sound
Bird Sound () is a hazardous but navigable sound
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South Georgia
South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
, lying south of
Gony Point,
Bird Island. It was charted by
Discovery Investigations
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personnel on the ''
Discovery
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Discovery, The Discovery ...
'' in the period 1926–30 and named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
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in 1963 for 's motor cutter, used in a survey of this area in February–March 1961, and lost in heavy seas near this rock.
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References
Rock formations of South Georgia
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