Goritsa Rocks
 Location of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. | |
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| Geography | |
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| Location | Antarctica |
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| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands |
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| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | Uninhabited |
Goritsa Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Горица, romanized: skali Goritsa, IPA: [skɐˈli ɡoˈrit͡sɐ]) are the two contiguous rocks in Zed Islands off Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands extending 330 m in northwest-southeast direction and 70 m wide. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The rocks are named after the settlements of Goritsa in Northeastern and Southeastern Bulgaria.
Location
[edit | edit source]Goritsa Rocks are centred at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. and situated 100 m east-northeast of Dlagnya Rocks and 2.82 km west-southwest of Pyramid Island. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.
Maps
[edit | edit source]- Livingston Island to King George Island. Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Second edition 2010, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
[edit | edit source]- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- Goritsa Rocks. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Goritsa 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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