Alepu Rocks

62°23′04″S 59°20′37″W / 62.38444°S 59.34361°W / -62.38444; -59.34361ArchipelagoSouth Shetland IslandsAdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

Alepu Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Алепу, ‘Skali Alepu’ \ska-'li a-le-'pu\) is the group of rocks off the east coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, situated in an area with a diameter of 380 m (416 yd).

The rocks are named after the seaside locality of Alepu in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Alepu Rocks are centred at 62°23′04″S 59°20′37″W / 62.38444°S 59.34361°W / -62.38444; -59.34361, which is 330 m (361 yd) north-northeast of Kitchen Point and 1.36 km (0.85 mi) southeast of Perelik 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

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

External links

• Alepu Rocks. Copernix satellite image

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