Low Rock is a low rock surrounded by foul ground, lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) southwest of Stranger Point

Stranger Point

Stranger Point is a point forming the southernmost tip of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for the sealer Stranger from Boston, MA, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21 in company with the O'Cain,...

, the south extremity of King George 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...

. An unnamed rock in essentially this position appears on a chart by David Ferguson

David Ferguson

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, Scottish geologist aboard the whaler Hanka, in these waters in 1913-14. Low Rock was more accurately charted by DI personnel on the Discovery II in 1935 and 1937.