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Low Reef () is a
reef A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral, or similar relatively stable material lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic component, abiotic (non-living) processes such as deposition (geol ...
extending for from the east end of
Annenkov Island Annenkov Island is an island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, to the west of the main island of South Georgia. The Pickersgill Islands are to its southeast. It is irregularly shaped and long and high, lying off the south-cent ...
, which lies off
South Georgia South Georgia is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. ...
in the
South Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for ...
. The name "Low Rock" appeared on a 1931 Admiralty chart for the northeastern rock of this reef. The
South Georgia Survey The South Georgia Survey was a series of expeditions to survey and map the island of South Georgia, led by Duncan Carse between 1951 and 1957. Although South Georgia had been commercially exploited as a whaling station during the first half of t ...
, 1956–57, reported that it was the reef which required a name to distinguish it from nearby
Hauge Reef Hauge Reef is a chain of islands and rocks extending in an east-northeast direction from the eastern extremity of Annenkov Island to a point about west-southwest of Cape Darnley (South Georgia), Cape Darnley, South Georgia Island, South Georgia. I ...
.


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Reefs of Antarctica Geography of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub