Roca Negra

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Roca Negra
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height 40  m
location Nelson Island , South Shetland Islands
Coordinates 62 ° 16 ′ 13 ″  S , 58 ° 57 ′ 45 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 16 ′ 13 ″  S , 58 ° 57 ′ 45 ″  W
Roca Negra (South Shetland Islands)
Roca Negra

Roca Negra ( Spanish for Black Rock ) is a prominent and 40  m high rocky promontory in the northeast of Nelson Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises about 1.5 km southwest of Rip Point on the east bank of Edgell Bay .

Chilean scientists named it descriptively.

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