Voluyak Rocks
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 Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands | |
  Voluyak Rocks Location on Antarctic Peninsula  Voluyak Rocks Location in Antarctica | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 62°26′02″S 59°58′22″W / 62.43389°S 59.97278°W |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands |
| Length | 1.9 km (1.18 mi) |
| Administration | |
| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | uninhabited |
Voluyak Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Волуяк, ‘Skali Voluyak’ ska-'li vo-'lu-yak) is a chain of rocks off the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated 400 m (440 yd) north of Pavlikeni Point. Extending 1.9 km (1.2 mi) in southeast–northwest direction.
The rocks are named after the settlement of Voluyak in western Bulgaria.
Voluyak Rocks are centred at 62°26′02″S 59°58′22″W / 62.43389°S 59.97278°W (British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009).
See also
Map
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Archived 2008-04-24 at the Wayback Machine Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
