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Milev Rocks
Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands.Geography Location Antarctica Coordinates 62°18′46″S 59°32′54″W / 62.31278°S 59.54833°W Archipelago South Shetland Islands Country Demographics Population 0 Additional information Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System Milev Rocks (Bulgarian: Милеви скали, ‘Milevi Skali’ \'mi-le-vi ska-'li\) is the group of rocks off the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, situated east of Henfield Rock, south-southwest of Orsoya Rocks and southwest of Mellona Rocks, and extending 1.5 km (0.93 mi) in east-west direction and 600 m (656 yd) in north-south direction.
The rocks are named after the Bulgarian poet Geo Milev (pseudonym of Georgi Milyov Kasabov, 1895–1925).
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Location
Milev Rocks are centred at 62°18′46″S 59°32′54″W / 62.31278°S 59.54833°W, which is 3.06 km (1.90 mi) north-northwest 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
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
References
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.
South Shetland Islands Major Minor - Aitcho
- (Barrientos
- Bilyana
- Cecilia
- Emeline
- Jorge
- Kilifarevo
- Pasarel
- Riksa)
- Araguez
- Astor
- Barlow
- Basso
- Bridgeman
- Chiprovtsi
- Cornwall
- Cornwallis
- Craggy
- Dee
- Desolation
- Dunbar
- (Aspis
- Balsha
- Zavala)
- Express
- Gibbs
- González
- Half Moon
- Heywood
- Kabile
- Meade
- (Zverino
- Cave)
- Miladinovi
- Montufar
- Ongley
- Onogur
- Penguin
- Pordim
- Pyramid
- Rogozen
- Romeo
- Rowett
- Rugged
- San Telmo
- Seal
- Sierra
- Stoker
- Table
- Tatul
- Treklyano
- Valchedram
- Window
- Withem
- Wood
- Zed
- (Esperanto
- Koshava
- Lesidren
- Phanagoria)
Rocks, stacks, reefs
spits and banks- Alepu
- Avren
- Belchin
- Bonert
- Bowler
- Buchino
- Caraquet
- Chaos
- Channel
- Chapman
- Cheshire
- Cone
- Cutler
- Dovizio
- Eddystone
- Eliza
- Folger
- Frederick
- Galiche
- Grace
- Graovo
- Henfield
- Hetty
- Holmes
- Ibar
- Koynare
- Letelier
- Liberty
- Lientur
- Long
- Lynx
- Maglizh
- Makresh
- Mellona
- Milev
- Mónica
- Morris
- Okol
- Opaka
- Orsoya
- Parry Patch
- Passage
- Pig
- Potmess
- Priboy
- Rabisha
- Raquelia
- Reyes
- Rongel
- Rosales
- Rusokastro
- Salient
- Sally
- Sewing-Machine Needles
- Skrino
- Stackpole
- Telish
- The Pointers
- Tooth
- Turmoil
- Tvarditsa
- Vardim
- Vergilov
- Vietor
- Voluyak
- Weeks
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