Belchin Rock

Belchin Rock

Belchin Rock Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°31′37″S 60°24′26″W
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Administration
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

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

Belchin Rock ([скала Белчин] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), ‘Skala Belchin’ ska-'la bel-'chin) is a rock off the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated in Hero Bay 2.2 km (1.4 mi) northeast of Siddins Point and 2 km (1.2 mi) north of Melta Point.

The rock is named after the settlement of Belchin in western Bulgaria.

Location

Belchin Rock is located at 62°31′37″S 60°24′26″W. Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2010.

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

External links

• Belchin Rock.

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