Pingvin Rocks
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| Waters | Morton Strait | |
| archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 43 ′ S , 61 ° 14 ′ W | |
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The Pingvin Rocks (English; Bulgarian скали Пингвин skali Pingwin ) are a group of cliff rocks in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . Off the northeast coast of Snow Island they lie in an east-west extension over a length of 670 m and a width of 300 m at distances of 1.7 km northwest of the northeastern extension of President Head , 1 km northeast of Karposh Point and 5.8 km south-southwest of Devils Point .
Bulgarian scientists mapped them in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2018 after the Bulgarian trawler Pingwin , who used to fish in the waters around South Georgia , around the Kerguelen , around the South Shetland from the 1970s to the early 1990s. and the Southern Orkney Islands and around the Antarctic Peninsula .
Web links
- Pingvin Rocks in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)