The Fitzroy shipping area, named after him, was previously known as what?
Robert FitzRoy after him, as was the weather ship "Admiral Fitzroy" (formerly ). In 2010 New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) named its new IBM supercomputer "FitzRoy" in honour of him. On 4 February 2002, when the shipping forecast sea area Finisterre was renamed to avoid confusion with the (smaller) French and Spanish forecast area of the same name, the new name chosen by the UK's Meteorological Office was "FitzRoy", in honour of their founder. FitzRoy has been commemorated by the Fitzroy Building at the University of Plymouth, used by the School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Science.
Robert FitzRoy Moreno. It is high. The aboriginals had not named it, and used the word "chaltén" (meaning smoking mountain) for this and other peaks. Fitzroy River, in northern Western Australia, was named after him by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes who, at the time, commanded HMS "Beagle" (previously commanded by FitzRoy). The South American conifer "Fitzroya cupressoides" is named after him, as well as the "Delphinus fitzroyi", a species of dolphin discovered by Darwin during his voyage aboard the "Beagle". Fitzroy, Falkland Islands and Port Fitzroy, New Zealand are also named after him. The World War II Captain class frigate was named