Voluyak Rocks

Voluyak Rocks

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°26′02″S 59°58′22″W / 62.43389°S 59.97278°W / -62.43389; -59.97278
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

 WikiMiniAtlas

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

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.

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