Eddystone Rocks (South Shetland Islands)

Eddystone Rocks

File:Rugged-Island-location-map.png Location of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Country
Antarctica
Demographics
Population	0
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

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

Eddystone Rocks is a group of two rocks (the north one being the larger) lying to the northwest of Rugged Island off western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

The feature was charted and named in 1821 by Robert Fildes after the Eddystone Rocks off Plymouth, England.

Location

The rocks are centred at which is 3.54 km (2.2 mi) west-southwest of The Pointers and 4.73 km (2.94 mi) west-northwest of Cape Sheffield, Rugged Island (British mapping in 1821, 1822, 1933 and 1968, French in 1937, Argentine in 1946, 1957 and 1980, Chilean in 1971, and Bulgarian in 2009).

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

Maps

• Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c. from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822.
• 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

External links

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.