Skrino Rocks
Appearance
![]() Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands | |
Geography | |
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Location | Antarctica |
Coordinates | 62°23′06.5″S 59°19′32″W / 62.385139°S 59.32556°W |
Archipelago | South Shetland Islands |
Administration | |
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
Demographics | |
Population | uninhabited |
Skrino Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Скрино, ‘Skali Skrino’ \ska-'li skri-'no\) is the chain of rocks off the east coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, extending 570 m (623 yd) in east–west direction.
The rocks are named after the settlement of Skrino in Western Bulgaria.
Location
[edit]Skrino Rocks are centered at 62°23′06.5″S 59°19′32″W / 62.385139°S 59.32556°W, which is 1.03 km (0.64 mi) west-northeast of Kitchen Point and 3.4 km (2.1 mi) south-southeast of Salient Rock. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009.
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See also
[edit]- Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
- List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
- SCAR
- Territorial claims in Antarctica
Map
[edit]- 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
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- Skrino Rocks. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
External links
[edit]- Skrino Rocks. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.