Cutler Stack is a sea stack extending 170 by and rising to 16 m (52 ft), lying off Nedelya Point

Nedelya Point

Nedelya Point is a sharp ice-free point on the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 300 m into Barclay Bay. Situated 1.7 km southwest of Bilyar Point, 3 km east of Lair Point, and 1.6 km northeast of Sparadok Point...

 in the south of Barclay Bay

Barclay Bay

Barclay Bay is a bay lying between Cape Shirreff and Essex Point on the north side of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name appears on an 1825 chart of the British sealing expedition under James Weddell, and is now established in international usage.-Maps:* L.L. Ivanov et al....

, western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers

Seal hunting

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. The hunt is currently practiced in five countries: Canada, where most of the world's seal hunting takes place, Namibia, the Danish region of Greenland, Norway and Russia...

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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

British Antarctic Survey

The British Antarctic Survey is the United Kingdom's national Antarctic operation and has an active role in Antarctic affairs. BAS is part of the Natural Environment Research Council and has over 400 staff. It operates five research stations, two ships and five aircraft in and around Antarctica....

 survey party in 1957-58.

Location

The stack is located at 62°36′44.5"S 60°58′51.5"W which is 300 m (328 yd) north-northwest of Nedelya Point, 2.8 km (1.7 mi) east-northeast of Lair Point

Lair Point

Lair Point is a point projecting 570 m into Barclay Bay from Robbery Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the east side of the entrance to Kukuzel Cove...

 and 4.72 km (2.9 mi) southwest of Rowe Point

Rowe Point

Rowe Point is a sharp, low ice-free point on the southeast coast of Barclay Bay in western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica....

 (British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009).

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
  Scar
  Scars are areas of fibrous tissue that replace normal skin after injury. A scar results from the biological process of wound repair in the skin and other tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a natural part of the healing process. With the exception of very minor lesions, every wound results in...
  
  
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

Maps

• Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

External links

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.