Perivol Rock

Perivol Rock

Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands
Perivol Rock Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°42′02″S 61°20′52″W / 62.70056°S 61.34778°W / -62.70056; -61.34778Coordinates: 62°42′02″S 61°20′52″W / 62.70056°S 61.34778°W / -62.70056; -61.34778
Length	230 m (750 ft)
Width	170 m (560 ft)
Administration
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

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 southeast-northwest direction and 170 m wide.

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.

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), 1993–2016.

References

• Perivol Rock. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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