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Priboy Rocks

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Priboy Rocks
Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands
Priboy Rocks is located in Antarctic Peninsula
Priboy Rocks
Priboy Rocks
Location on Antarctic Peninsula
Priboy Rocks is located in Antarctica
Priboy Rocks
Priboy Rocks
Location in Antarctica
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates62°22′05″S 59°21′50″W / 62.36806°S 59.36389°W / -62.36806; -59.36389
ArchipelagoSouth Shetland Islands
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Populationuninhabited

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

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Priboy Rocks are centred at 62°22′05″S 59°21′50″W / 62.36806°S 59.36389°W / -62.36806; -59.36389, 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.

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

See also

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Map

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  • 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

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