
Thomson Rock
(Batterbee Mountains)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 71° 26' 38" S 66° 54' 44" W
rising to c. 900m E of Mount Bagshawe, George VI Sound, following surveys by the British Antarctic Survey from 'Stonington Island' and 'Fossil Bluff', 1962-72, was named after Dr Michael Robert Alexander Thomson (b. 1942), the British Antarctic Survey geologist from 1963; Adelaide, 1964, 'Fossil Bluff', 1964-65, and 'Stonington Island', 1965-66; Chief Geologist, the British Antarctic Survey, from 1984.