Buchino Rocks

62°23′25″S 59°53′13″W / 62.39028°S 59.88694°W / -62.39028; -59.88694ArchipelagoSouth Shetland IslandsAdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationuninhabited

Buchino Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Бучино, romanized: Skali Buchino) (ska-'li 'bu-chi-no) is a group of rocks off the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated 1.5 km (0.93 mi) northwest of Stoker Island, 1.6 km (0.99 mi) southeast of Romeo Island and 1.9 km (1.2 mi) north-northwest of Tvarditsa Rocks.

The rocks are named after the settlements of Buchino, and Golemo (Great) Buchino and Malo (Little) Buchino in western Bulgaria.

Location

Buchino Rocks are located at 62°23′25″S 59°53′13″W / 62.39028°S 59.88694°W / -62.39028; -59.88694. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• 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

Notes

References

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

External links

• Buchino Rocks. Copernix satellite image

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