Low Reef () is a

reef A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic processes— deposition of sand, wave erosion planing down rock out ...

extending for from the east end of

Annenkov Island Annenkov Island is to the west of the main island of South Georgia Island, South Georgia. The Pickersgill Islands are to its southeast. It is irregularly shaped and long and high, lying off the south-central coast of South Georgia. History T ...

, which lies off South Georgia in the

South Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...

. The name "Low Rock" appeared on a 1931

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chart for the northeastern rock of this reef. The

South Georgia Survey The South Georgia Survey was a series of expeditions to survey and map the island of South Georgia, led by Duncan Carse between 1951 and 1957. Although South Georgia had been commercially exploited as a whaling station during the first half of ...

, 1956–57, reported that it was the reef which required a name to distinguish it from nearby Hauge Reef.

References

Reefs of Antarctica Geography of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub