Sharman Point, Admiralty Bay approved as Antarctic Place Name
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The Trust is pleased to announce that the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (APC) has informed us that a feature in Admiralty Bay on King George Island will be named after Alan Sharman. Trustee Dick Harbour took on the task of persuading the APC to find a new feature for Alan, after the originally allocated Sharman Rock could not be identified. The Trust is very pleased with this outcome, as last year Memorial Point was named for all FIDS/BAS personnel who had died while on Antarctic service who had no feature named for them.
The citation in the British Antarctic Territory Gazetteer states:
Sharman Point: 62°10’48”S 58°18’04”W. Point on the SW side of Krakow Peninsula, King George Island, 1 km north of Chabrier Rock. Named after Alan Sharman (1963-59), FIDS Meteorological Assistant, Signy, 1958-59, and Admiralty Bay, King George Island, until his death in a mountaineering accident, 23 April 1959. Previously, Sharman Rock (62°06’S, 58°28’W), but this was shown to be non-existent by observations from HMS Endurance, January 1969 and the name deleted from the gazetteer.
The map shows the location of Sharman Point by a red arrow, and curiously still on the map by the Peruvian Station, Machu Picchu, is Sharman Rock.