Bekas Rock (Bulgarian: скала Бекас, ‘Skala Bekas’ \ska-'la be-'kas\) is the 140 m long in southwest-northeast direction and 60 m wide rock lying west of Rugged Island on the west side of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
 Map of Livingston Island featuring Bekas Rock | |
  Bekas Rock Location of Bekas Rock  Bekas Rock Bekas Rock (Antarctic Peninsula) | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 62°37′48″S 61°20′12″W / 62.63000°S 61.33667°W |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands |
| Length | 140 m (460 ft) |
| Width | 60 m (200 ft) |
| Administration | |
| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | uninhabited |
The rock is “named after the ocean fishing trawler Bekas of the Bulgarian company Ocean Fisheries – Burgas whose ships operated in the waters of South Georgia, Kerguelen, the South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula from 1970 to the early 1990s. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany are the pioneers of modern Antarctic fishing industry.”[1]
Location
editBekas Rock is located at 62°37′48″S 61°20′12″W / 62.63000°S 61.33667°W, which is 2.63 km southwest of Cape Sheffield, 1.95 km west by south of Ugain Point, 2.73 km northwest of Benson Point and 4.5 km southeast of the larger of the two Eddystone Rocks. Bulgarian mapping in 2017.
Maps
edit- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017; updated 2018.
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
Notes
editReferences
edit- Bekas Rock. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
edit- Bekas Rock. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
