Skrino Rocks

Skrino Rocks

Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°23′06.5″S 59°19′32″W / 62.385139°S 59.32556°W / -62.385139; -59.32556
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Administration
Antarctica
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Skrino Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Скрино, ‘Skali Skrino’ \ska-'li skri-'no\) is the chain of rocks off the east coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, extending 570 m (623 yd) in east–west direction.

The rocks are named after the settlement of Skrino in Western Bulgaria.

Location[]

Skrino Rocks are centered at

62°23′06.5″S 59°19′32″W / 62.385139°S 59.32556°W / -62.385139; -59.32556, which is 1.03 km (0.64 mi) wast-northeast of Kitchen Point and 3.4 km (2.1 mi) south-southeast of Salient Rock. 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

Notes[]

References[]

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

External links[]

• Skrino Rocks. Copernix satellite image

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