Gravenoire Rock is a small rock outcrop about 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) southeast of Rock X

Rock X

Rock X is a prominent offshore rock 0.4 miles long, lying close inside the east side of the entrance to Victor Bay, 1 mile northwest of Gravenoire Rock, on the Antarctic coast. It was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47, and charted by the French Antarctic...

, protruding above the coastal ice at the east side of Victor Bay

Victor Bay

Victor Bay is a bay about 16 nautical miles wide and 7 nautical miles long, indenting the coast between Pourquoi Pas Point and Mathieu Rock, Antarctica. The bay is marked by an extensive chain of icebergs breaking away from the high tongue of Commandant Charcot Glacier. It was delineated from...

. Photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Charted by the French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....

, 1952–53, and so named by them because of its resemblance to Gravenoire, the name of a puy or dome-shaped hill overlooking the city of Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census. It is the prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department...

, which lies in the chain of extinct volcanoes forming the Monts d'Auvergne of central France.