Lyutibrod Rocks ( bg, Лютибродски скали, ‘Lyutibrodski Skali’ \'lyu-ti-brod-ski ska-'li\) is the chain of rocks off the northwest coast of
Low Island
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in the
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...
extending 860 m in east-west direction.
The feature is named after the settlement of
Lyutibrod in northwestern Bulgaria.
Location
The central and largest of Lyutibrod Rocks is located at , which is 400 m west of
Fernandez Point and 1.95 km north-northeast of
Solnik Point.
See also
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List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
Maps
South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands.Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Lyutibrod Rocks.SCAR
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Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
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.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
External links
Lyutibrod Rocks.Copernix satellite image
Rock formations of the South Shetland Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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