Orsoya Rocks
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| Location | Antarctica |
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| Population | Uninhabited |
Orsoya Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Орсоя, ‘Skali Orsoya’ \ska-'li or-'so-ya\) is the group of rocks off the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, situated west-northwest of Mellona Rocks, north-northeast of Milev Rocks and east-northeast of Opaka Rocks, and extending 650 m in northwest-southeast direction and 500 m in northeast-southwest direction.
The rocks are named after the settlement of Orsoya in Northwestern Bulgaria.
Location
[edit | edit source]Orsoya Rocks are centred at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found., which is 4.78 km north of Newell Point. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009.
See also
[edit | edit source]Maps
[edit | edit source]- South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 62 58. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1968.
- 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)
- Orsoya Rocks. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
External links
[edit | edit source]- Orsoya 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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