Skrino Rocks

Skrino Rocks

Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Country
Antarctica
Demographics
Population	0
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Skrino Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Скрино, ‘Skali Skrino’ \ska-'li skri-'no\) is the chain of rocks off the east coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, extending 570 m (623 yd) in east-west direction.

The rocks are named after the settlement of Skrino in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Skrino Rocks are centred at , which is 1.03 km (0.64 mi) wast-northeast of Kitchen Point and 3.4 km (2.1 mi) south-southeast of Salient Rock. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009.

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

Map

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

External links

• 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.