Orsoya Rocks
| Orsoya Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 18 ′ S , 59 ° 32 ′ W | |
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The Orsoya Rocks (English; Bulgarian скали Орсоя skali Orsoja ) are a group of cliffs 4.78 km north of Newell Point off the north coast of Robert Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They are distributed in a northwest-southeastern extension over a length of 650 m and a width of 500 m west-northwest of the Mellona Rocks .
British scientists mapped it in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the town of Orsoja in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Orsoya Rocks in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)