 Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands. | |
  Graovo Rocks Location of Graovo Rocks  Graovo Rocks Graovo Rocks (Antarctic Peninsula) | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 62°19′31″S 59°30′22″W / 62.32528°S 59.50611°W |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands |
| Administration | |
| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | Uninhabited |
Graovo Rocks is the group of rocks off the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. They are situated east of Lientur Rocks and southwest of Liberty Rocks, and extend 1.75 km (1.09 mi) in north-south direction and 750 m (820 yd) in east-west direction.
The rocks are named after the Graovo region in western Bulgaria.
Location
[edit]Graovo Rocks are centred at 62°19′31″S 59°30′22″W / 62.32528°S 59.50611°W, which is 1.51 km (0.94 mi) north-northeast of Newell Point. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009.
See also
[edit]- Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
- List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
- SCAR
- Territorial claims in Antarctica
Maps
[edit]- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
External links
[edit]- Graovo Rocks. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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