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Cutler Stack
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates62°36′44.5″S 60°58′51.5″W / 62.612361°S 60.980972°W / -62.612361; -60.980972
ArchipelagoSouth Shetland Islands
Length0.17 km (0.106 mi)
Width0.15 km (0.093 mi)
Highest elevation16 m (52 ft)
Administration
Antarctica
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Populationuninhabited
Barclay Bay and Robbery Beaches from near Basalt Lake on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, with left to right Lair Point, Frederick Rocks, Cutler Stack, Nedelya Point and the northern part of Urvich Wall in the middle ground, and Cape Shirreff and Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula in the right background

Cutler Stack is a conspicuous sea stack extending 170 by 150 m (186 by 164 yd) and rising to 16 m (52 ft), lying off Ivanov Beach in the south of Barclay Bay, western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The feature is named after Captain Benjamin Cutler, part owner of the American brig Frederick that visited the area in 1820–21, and Master of the sealing schooner Free Gift that visited the area in 1821–22; his name was found carved on a piece of whale vertebra excavated from a stone hut on Byers Peninsula by a FIDS survey party in 1957–58.

Location

The stack is located at 62°36′44.5″S 60°58′51.5″W / 62.612361°S 60.980972°W / -62.612361; -60.980972 which is 300 m (328 yd) north-northwest of Nedelya Point, 2.8 km (1.7 mi) east-northeast of Lair Point and 4.72 km (2.93 mi) southwest of Rowe Point (British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017).

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