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Weeks Stack (62°13′38.1″S 59°2′44.5″W / 62.227250°S 59.045694°W) is a sea stack lying off the north tip of Nelson Island in the northern approach to Fildes Strait, in the South Shetland Islands. Situated 635 m north-northeast of Cariz (Agrelo) Point. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1961 for Captain Weeks, Master of the British sealing vessel Horatio from London, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21.
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This article incorporates public domain material from "Weeks Stack". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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