Skrino Rocks
| Skrino Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Nelson Strait | |
| archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 23 ′ S , 59 ° 20 ′ W | |
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The Skrino Rocks (English; Bulgarian скали Скрино skali Skrino ) are an east-west orientation 570 m long chain of cliffs off the east coast of Robert Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They are 1.03 km east-northeast of Kitchen Point and 3.34 km south-southeast of Salient Rock .
British scientists mapped it in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the village of Skrino in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Skrino Rocks in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)