Voluyak Rocks
![]() Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands | |
![]() ![]() Voluyak Rocks Location on Antarctic Peninsula | |
Geography | |
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Location | Antarctica |
Coordinates | 62°26′02″S 59°58′22″W / 62.43389°S 59.97278°W |
Archipelago | South Shetland Islands |
Length | 1.9 km (1.18 mi) |
Administration | |
Antarctica | |
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
Demographics | |
Population | uninhabited |
Voluyak Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Волуяк, ‘Skali Voluyak’ ska-'li vo-'lu-yak) is a chain of rocks off the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated 400 m (440 yd) north of Pavlikeni Point. Extending 1.9 km (1.2 mi) in southeast–northwest direction.
The rocks are named after the settlement of in western Bulgaria.
Location[]
Voluyak Rocks are centred at 62°26′02″S 59°58′22″W / 62.43389°S 59.97278°W (British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009).
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg/220px-Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg)
See also[]
- Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- 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[]
- Voluyak Rocks. Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links[]
- Voluyak Rocks. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
- Rock formations of Greenwich Island
- Bulgaria and the Antarctic
- Greenwich Island geography stubs