Priboy Rocks
 Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands. | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 62°22′05″S 59°21′50″W / 62.36806°S 59.36389°W |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands |
| Country | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 0 |
| Additional information | |
| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Priboy Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Прибой, ‘Skali Priboy’ \ska-'li pri-'boy\) is the group of rocks off the east coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, extending 1.65 km (1.03 mi) in east-west direction and 1.2 km (0.75 mi) in north-south direction.
The rocks are named after the settlement of Priboy in Western Bulgaria.
Location
Priboy Rocks are centred at 62°22′05″S 59°21′50″W / 62.36806°S 59.36389°W, which is 750 m (820 yd) east of Smirnenski Point, 1.45 km (0.90 mi) south-southwest of Salient Rock and 850 m (930 yd) north of Perelik Point. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009.
See also
- Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
- List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
- SCAR
- Territorial claims in Antarctica
Map
- 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
References
External links
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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