Perivol Rock
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Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Perivol Rock (Bulgarian: скала Перивол, ‘Skala Perivol’ \ska-'la pe-ri-'vol\) is the rock off Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 230 m in southeast-northwest direction and 170 m wide.
The feature is named after the settlement of Perivol in western Bulgaria.
Location
Perivol Rock is located at 62°42′02″S 61°20′52″W / 62.70056°S 61.34778°WCoordinates: 62°42′02″S 61°20′52″W / 62.70056°S 61.34778°W, which is 750 m northwest of Cape Timblón and 1.28 km north-northeast of Mezdra Point. British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.
Maps
- L.L. Ivanov. 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 (Updated second edition 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5)
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2012.
References
- Perivol Rock. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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