Voluyak Rocks

Voluyak Rocks

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands
Voluyak Rocks Location on Antarctic Peninsula Voluyak Rocks Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°26′02″S 59°58′22″W
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Length	1.9 km (1.18 mi)
Administration
Antarctica
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Voluyak Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Волуяк, ‘Skali Voluyak’ ska-'li vo-'lu-yak) is a chain of rocks off the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated 400 m (440 yd) north of Pavlikeni Point. Extending 1.9 km (1.2 mi) in southeast–northwest direction.

The rocks are named after the settlement of Voluyak in western Bulgaria.

Location

Voluyak Rocks are centred at 62°26′02″S 59°58′22″W (British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009).

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

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• 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

• Voluyak Rocks. Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Voluyak Rocks. Copernix satellite image

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