Patresh Rock

62°20′41″S 59°39′39″W / 62.34472°S 59.66083°W / -62.34472; -59.66083ArchipelagoSouth Shetland IslandsAdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

Patresh Rock (Bulgarian: скала Патреш, ‘Skala Patresh’ \ska-'la 'pa-tresh\) is a rock in Clothier Harbour on the northwest coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, extending 270 m in southeast-northwest direction and 40 m wide. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The rock is named after the settlement of Patresh in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

Patresh Rock is located at 62°20′41″S 59°39′39″W / 62.34472°S 59.66083°W / -62.34472; -59.66083, which is 530 m southwest of Hammer Point and 780 m northeast of Shipot Point. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• South Shetland Islands

Maps

• Livingston Island to King George Island. Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968.
• 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 (Second edition 2010, ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5)
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

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

External links

• Patresh Rock. Copernix satellite image

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