Sparrman Stacks

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The Sparrman Stacks are a small group of sea stacks south-west of The Office Boys, a group of the Clerke Rocks, which supports breeding colonies of Antarctic seabirds.

The stacks ae named after Anders Sparrman, botanical assistant to Johann Forster (from whom Forsters Passage is named) on HMS Resolution, on Cook's second voyage of exploration when he discovered Clerke Rocks in 1775.

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