Lynx Rocks is a group of rocks in southwestern

Hero Bay A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength. Like other formerly gender-specific terms (like ''actor''), ''hero ...

on the north side of

Livingston Island Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was the first land discovered south of 60 ...

in the

South Shetland Islands, Antarctica The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty System, ...

. The area was visited by early 19th century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 180 ...

operating from nearby

Blythe Bay Blythe Bay () is an anchorage at the southeast side of Desolation Island, lying north of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The bay is bounded by Craggy Island to the northeast, Desolation Island to the northwest, the ...

. The feature is named after the

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n sealing vessel ''Lynx'' under Captain Richard Siddins that visited the South Shetland in 1820-21 and 1821–22, wintering in the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouzet ...

in 1821.

Location

The rocks are centred at which is west of

Siddins Point Siddins Point () is a point projecting into the middle of the head of Hero Bay on the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Plac ...

, north-northeast of

Kuklen Point Kuklen Point ( bg, нос Куклен, ‘Nos Kuklen’ \'nos 'kuk-len\) is a point forming the east side of the entrance to Skravena Cove on the coast of Hero Bay, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands. It is situated 2.13 km southeas ...

, east of

Agüero Point Agüero Point is the southeast extremity of a trapezoid-shaped and mostly ice-covered headland projecting 900 m from the east coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula into Hero Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The poi ...

, southeast of Black Point and southwest of Chapman Rocks (British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2009). Livingston-Island-Map-2010

Maps

* L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

External links

Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Rock formations of Livingston Island {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub

Location

See also

Maps

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