Bizone rock
| Bizone rock | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 43 '30 " S , 61 ° 27' 34" W | |
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| length | 120 m | |
| width | 100 m | |
The Bizone Rock (English; Bulgarian скала Бизоне skala Bisone ) is a south-east-northwest orientation 120 m long and 100 m wide cliff rock off the coast of Snow Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is 4.4 km west of Irnik Point and 3.85 km northeast of Byewater Point . It is the largest and most southerly of a group of cliffs, which are spread in a southeast-northwestern extension over a length of 1.84 km and a width of 1 km.
British scientists mapped it in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the ancient city of Bisone in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Bizone Rock in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)