Dlagnya Rocks
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Location of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
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Location | Antarctica |
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Archipelago | South Shetland Islands |
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Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System |
Dlagnya Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Длъгня, ‘Skali Dlagnya’ \ska-'li 'dl&g-nya\) are the several contiguous rocks in Zed Islands off Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands extending 540 m in north-south direction and 60 m wide. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The rocks are named after the settlement of Dlagnya in Northern Bulgaria.
Location
Dlagnya Rocks are centred at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. and situated 150 m east of Esperanto Island and 100 m west-southwest of Goritsa Rocks. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.
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), 1993–2016.
References
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- Dlagnya Rocks. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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