Orsoya Rocks

Orsoya Rocks

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates
Country
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Orsoya Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Орсоя, ‘Skali Orsoya’ \ska-'li or-'so-ya\) is the group of rocks off the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, situated west-northwest of Mellona Rocks, north-northeast of Milev Rocks and east-northeast of Opaka Rocks, and extending 650 m in northwest-southeast direction and 500 m in northeast-southwest direction.

The rocks are named after the settlement of Orsoya in Northwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Orsoya Rocks are centred at , which is 4.78 km north of Newell Point. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009.

Maps

• South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 62 58. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1968.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.