# Lair Point > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lair_Point > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lair_Point.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lair_Point > Source revision: 1243472824 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Point in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica}} thumb|Location of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands [[File:Byers Peninsula.jpg|thumb|[Barclay Bay](/source/Barclay_Bay) and [Robbery Beaches](/source/Robbery_Beaches) from near [Basalt Lake](/source/Basalt_Lake) on [Byers Peninsula](/source/Byers_Peninsula), [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island), with left to right Lair Point, [Frederick Rocks](/source/Frederick_Rocks), [Cutler Stack](/source/Cutler_Stack), [Nedelya Point](/source/Nedelya_Point) and the northern part of [Urvich Wall](/source/Urvich_Wall) in the middle ground, and [Cape Shirreff](/source/Cape_Shirreff) and [Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula](/source/Ioannes_Paulus_II_Peninsula) in the right background]] '''Lair Point''' is a point projecting 570 m into [Barclay Bay](/source/Barclay_Bay) from [Robbery Beaches](/source/Robbery_Beaches) on [Byers Peninsula](/source/Byers_Peninsula), [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island) in the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica) and forming the east side of the entrance to [Kukuzel Cove](/source/Kukuzel_Cove). Dominated by Lair Hill (96 m). The point is named descriptively from a large cave on the point used by the early 19th century [sealers](/source/seal_hunting), relics of whose occupation were found by the [Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey](/source/British_Antarctic_Survey) in 1957–58. ==Location== The point is located at {{coord|62|36|54|S|61|02|07|W|}} which is 1.16 km east-southeast of [Villard Point](/source/Villard_Point) and 2.94 km west of [Nedelya Point](/source/Nedelya_Point) (British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009). ==Maps== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109084308/http://hercules.cedex.es/Ecosistemas/ByersRadar.pdf#55#55 Península Byers, Isla Livingston.] Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992. * L.L. Ivanov et al. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands](/source/%3Acommons%3AImage%3ALivingston-Greenwich-map.jpg). Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005. * L.L. Ivanov. [http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands]. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. {{ISBN|978-954-92032-6-4}} * [http://www.add.scar.org Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).] Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. * L.L. Ivanov. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island](/source/%3Acommons%3AFile%3ALivingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png). Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. {{ISBN|978-619-90008-3-0}} ==Gallery== Byers Peninsula, eastern part.jpg|Eastern [Byers Peninsula](/source/Byers_Peninsula) in [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island) with left to right Lair Hill, [Robbery Beaches](/source/Robbery_Beaches), [Sparadok Point](/source/Sparadok_Point), [Tsamblak Hill](/source/Tsamblak_Hill) and [Negro Hill](/source/Negro_Hill) in the middle ground; and [Rowe Point](/source/Rowe_Point), [Cutler Stack](/source/Cutler_Stack), [Ivanov Beach](/source/Ivanov_Beach), [Nedelya Point](/source/Nedelya_Point), [Urvich Wall](/source/Urvich_Wall) surmounted by the slopes of [Rotch Dome](/source/Rotch_Dome), and [Clark Nunatak](/source/Clark_Nunatak) in the background ASPA-126-Byers-Peninsula.png|Map of [Antarctic Specially Protected Area](/source/Antarctic_Specially_Protected_Area) ''ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula'' Livingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png|Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island ==References== * [http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/ SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer]. Category:Headlands of Livingston Island {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Lair Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lair_Point) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lair_Point?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.