Perivol Rock

Perivol Rock (Bulgarian: скала Перивол, ‘Skala Perivol’ \ska-'la pe-ri-'vol\) is the rock off Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, extending 230 m in a southeast–northwest direction and 170 m wide.

Perivol Rock

Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands
Perivol Rock Location of Perivol Rock Perivol Rock Perivol Rock (Antarctic Peninsula)
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°42′02″S 61°20′52″W
Length	230 m (750 ft)
Width	170 m (560 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

The feature is named after the settlement of Perivol in western Bulgaria.

Location

Perivol Rock is located 750 m northwest of Cape Timblón and 1.28 km north-northeast of Mezdra Point. British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.

See also

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

Maps

• 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 (Updated 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

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

External links

• Perivol Rock. Copernix satellite image

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

Topographic map of Livingston Island featuring Perivol Rock