Lenoir Rock

Location of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°56′54″S 62°33′04″W / 62.94833°S 62.55111°W / -62.94833; -62.55111
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Area	1.29 ha (3.2 acres)
Length	230 m (750 ft)
Width	85 m (279 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Lenoir Rock (Bulgarian: скала Леноар, romanized: skala Lenoir, IPA: [skɐˈla lɛnoˈɐr]) is the rock off the NW coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica 230 m long in southwest-northeast direction and 85 m wide with a surface area of 1.29 ha. The vicinity was visited by early 19th century sealers.^[1]

The feature is named after Étienne Lenoir (1744-1832), a Belgian-French scientific instrument maker and inventor of the repeating circle; in association with other names in the area deriving from the early development or use of geodetic instruments and methods.

Lenoir Rock is located at 62°56′54″S 62°33′04″W / 62.94833°S 62.55111°W / -62.94833; -62.55111,^[2] which is 380 m southwest of Jireček Point and 1.85 km northeast of Villagra Point. Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2017.

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

• L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4)
• South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands. Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009
• L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

• Lenoir Rock. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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