Horatio Stump () is a flat-topped hill, high, lying immediately east of Flat Top Peninsula at the southwest end of King George Island in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

. It was named by the

UK 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 ...

in 1960 for the sealing vessel ''Horatio'' (Captain Weeks) from

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21.

References

Hills of the South Shetland Islands Landforms of King George Island (South Shetland Islands) {{KingGeorgeIslandAQ-geo-stub