Cutler Stack Explained

Cutler Stack
Map Relief:yes
Location:Antarctica
Coordinates:-62.6124°N -60.981°W
Archipelago:South Shetland Islands
Length Km:0.17
Width Km:0.15
Elevation M:16
Population:uninhabited
Country:Antarctica
Treaty System:Antarctic Treaty System

Cutler Stack is a conspicuous sea stack extending 170by and rising to 160NaN0, 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 -62.6124°N -60.981°W which is 3000NaN0 north-northwest of Nedelya Point, 2.8km (01.7miles) east-northeast of Lair Point and 4.72km (02.93miles) southwest of Rowe Point (British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017).

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