Graovo Rocks

Graovo Rocks

Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands.
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°19′31″S 59°30′22″W
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Graovo Rocks is the group of rocks off the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. They are situated east of Lientur Rocks and southwest of Liberty Rocks, and extend 1.75 km (1.09 mi) in north-south direction and 750 m (820 yd) in east-west direction.

The rocks are named after the Graovo region in western Bulgaria.

Location

Graovo Rocks are centred at 62°19′31″S 59°30′22″W, which is 1.51 km (0.94 mi) north-northeast of Newell Point. 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

Maps

• 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

References

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

External links

• Graovo Rocks. Copernix satellite image

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

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