Perivol rock
Perivol rock | ||
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Map of the Byers Peninsula ( Livingston Island ) with the northern part of Snow Island (bottom left) and Perivol Rock | ||
Waters | Drake Street | |
Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
Geographical location | 62 ° 42 ′ 2 ″ S , 61 ° 20 ′ 52 ″ W | |
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length | 230 m | |
width | 170 m |
The Perivol Rock (English; Bulgarian скала Перивол skala Periwol ) is a south-east-northwest orientation 230 m long and 170 m wide cliff rock off the coast of Snow Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 750 m northwest of Cape Timblón and 1.28 km north-northeast of Mezdra Point .
British scientists mapped it in 1968, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the town of Perivol in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Perivol Rock in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)