Telish rock

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Telish rock
Map of Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island) and Telish Rock (bottom right)
Map of Byers Peninsula ( Livingston Island ) and Telish Rock (bottom right)
Waters Bransfield Street
Archipelago South Shetland Islands
Geographical location 62 ° 41 '49.5 "  S , 60 ° 52' 11.5"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 41 '49.5 "  S , 60 ° 52' 11.5"  W
Telish Rock (South Shetland Islands)
Telish rock
length 150 m
width 80 m

The Telish Rock (English; Bulgarian скала Телиш skala Telisch ) is a 150 m long and 80 m wide cliff in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is 0.68 km southwest of Elephant Point and 3 km northwest of Enchantress Rocks . Another rock, 70 m long and 30 m wide, lies 120 m southeast of it.

British scientists mapped it in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980 and Bulgarian in 2005, 2009 and 2010. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2009 after the town of Telisch in northern Bulgaria .

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