Vetrilo Rocks

Vetrilo Rocks
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	64°56′57″S 64°00′26″W / 64.94917°S 64.00722°W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	27 ha (67 acres)
Length	970 m (3180 ft)
Width	485 m (1591 ft)
Administration
	Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Vetrilo Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Ветрило, romanized: skali Vetrilo, IPA: [skɐˈli vɛˈtriɫo]) is the group of rocks lying in an aquatory of 27 ha that extends 970 m in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 485 m in south-southeast to north-northwest direction in the Wauwermans Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Their surface area is 27 ha.^[1]

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a hand fan ('vetrilo' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.^[1]

Location[]

Vetrilo Rocks are centred at

64°56′57″S 64°00′26″W / 64.94917°S 64.00722°WCoordinates:

64°56′57″S 64°00′26″W / 64.94917°S 64.00722°W, which is 3.18 km south of Host Island, 5.55 km west-northwest of Zherav Island, 2.11 km north of the midpoint of Yato Rocks, and 4.7 km northeast of Kalmar Island in the Dannebrog Islands group. British mapping in 2001.

Maps[]

British Admiralty Nautical Chart 446 Anvers Island to Renaud Island. Scale 1:150000. Admiralty, UK Hydrographic Office, 2001
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

Notes[]

^ ^a ^b Vetrilo Rocks. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References[]

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links[]

Vetrilo Rocks. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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

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[CGA-1] Vetrilo Rocks. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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