Skrino Rocks

Skrino Rocks
Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands
Skrino Rocks
Location on Antarctic Peninsula
Skrino Rocks
Location in Antarctica
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates62°23′06.5″S 59°19′32″W / 62.385139°S 59.32556°W / -62.385139; -59.32556
ArchipelagoSouth Shetland Islands
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Populationuninhabited

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

Skrino Rocks are centered at 62°23′06.5″S 59°19′32″W / 62.385139°S 59.32556°W / -62.385139; -59.32556, 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.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

See also

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

Notes

References

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.