Belchin Rock

Belchin Rock

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°31′37″S 60°24′26″W / 62.52694°S 60.40722°W / -62.52694; -60.40722Coordinates: 62°31′37″S 60°24′26″W / 62.52694°S 60.40722°W / -62.52694; -60.40722
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Belchin Rock (Bulgarian: скала Белчин, ‘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 in western Bulgaria.

Location[]

Belchin Rock is located at

62°31′37″S 60°24′26″W / 62.52694°S 60.40722°W / -62.52694; -60.40722. Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2010.

See also[]

• Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
• 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

Notes[]

References[]

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

External links[]

• Belchin Rock. Copernix satellite image

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