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Lively Point
Lively Point () is a point forming the southern extremity of Renaud Island in the Biscoe Islands of Antarctica. The Biscoe Islands were discovered in 1832 by a British expedition under John Biscoe, and were first roughly surveyed by the Second and Third French Antarctic Expeditions, 1903–05, and 1908–10, both under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. Renaud Island was again roughly surveyed in 1935–36 by the British Graham Land Expedition, under John Rymill. The point was named in 1954 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the
that he had encountered a continent, Biscoe named the area "Graham Land", after First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Graham. Biscoe landed on Anvers Island and claimed to have sighted the mainland of the Antarctic continent.
Biscoe again began charting the new coastline the expedition had found and by the end of April 1832 he had become the third man (after James Cook and Fabian von Bellingshausen) to circumnavigate the Antarctic continent. On the journey home, in July, the "Lively" was wrecked at the Falkland