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Makresh Rocks (, ‘Skali Makresh’ ska-'li 'ma-kresh) are a group of rocks situated northeast of
Treklyano Island Treklyano Island (, ) is an island off the northeast coast of Robert Island, South Shetland Islands Extending , with a low rocky formation projecting northeastwards, the island emerged as a distinct geographical entity following the retreat of ...
off the northeast coast of
Robert Island Robert Island or Mitchells Island or Polotsk Island or Roberts Island is an island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being ...
,
South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the n ...
. Extending in west-southwest to east-northeast direction, and in northwest-southeast direction. The solitary ''Salient Rock'' is lying east of the midpoint of Makresh Rocks and northeast of
Smirnenski Point Smirnenski Point (, ‘Nos Smirnenski’ \'nos 'smir-nen-ski\) is a narrow, ice-free point on the east coast of Robert Island projecting 1.1 km into Nelson Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and forming the northwest side of t ...
. The feature is named after the settlement of
Makresh Makresh (, ) is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vidin Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Makresh Municipality, which lies in the western part of Vidin Province, close to the Bulgarian-Serbian border. Makresh i ...
in northwestern
Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...
. Salient Rock was descriptively named ''Roca Saliente'' by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition and charted in 1951.


Location

Makresh Rocks are centred at (Bulgarian mapping in 2009).


See also

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Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...
* List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S *
SCAR A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrosis, fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other Organ (anatomy), organs, and biological tissue, t ...
*
Territorial claims in Antarctica Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight land claim, territorial claims in Antarctica. These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observat ...


Map

* L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.


Notes


References


Makresh Rocks.
SCAR
Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bulgaria), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commis ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)


External links


Makresh Rocks.
Copernix satellite image Rock formations of Robert Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{RobertIsland-geo-stub