Dzhegov rock

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Dzhegov rock
Waters Prince Charles Strait
Archipelago South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 61 ° 4 '58.2 "  S , 54 ° 28' 21"  W Coordinates: 61 ° 4 '58.2 "  S , 54 ° 28' 21"  W
Dzhegov Rock (South Shetland Islands)
Dzhegov rock
length 40 m
width 30 m

Dzhegov Rock ( English ; Bulgarian Джегова скала Dscherowa skala ) is a south-east-northwest orientation 40 m long and 30 m wide cliff rock in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 1.2 km southeast of the western foothills of Cornwallis Island , 0.7 km west-southwest of the southern end of Gaydarov Point and 9.9 km east-northeast of Cape Valentine of Elephant Island in the eastern part of the Prince Charles Strait .

The Bulgarian Antarctic Place-names Commission named him in 2019 by Simeon Dschegov (1938-2011), in 1987 director of the company Ocean Fisheries in Burgas , whose fishing fleet of the early 1970's to the early 1990s in the waters around South Georgia to the Kerguelen , the South Orkney Islands and the South Shetland Islands, and the Antarctic Peninsula .

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