Priboy Rocks

Priboy Rocks

Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°22′05″S 59°21′50″W
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Administration
Antarctica
Demographics
Population	0

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

Priboy Rocks ([скали Прибой] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), ‘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

Priboy Rocks are centred at 62°22′05″S 59°21′50″W, 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.

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• 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

• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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