Vetrilo Rocks

Vetrilo Rocks

Location within Antarctica Location within Antarctic Peninsula
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	64°56′57″S 64°00′26″W
Archipelago	Wilhelm Archipelago
Area	27 ha (67 acres)
Length	970 m (3180 ft)
Width	485 m (1591 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Vetrilo Rocks (Bulgarian: скали Ветрило, romanized: skali Vetrilo, IPA: [skɐˈli vɛˈtriɫo]) is the group of rocks lying in an aquatory of 27 ha that extends 970 m in west-southwest to east-northeast direction and 485 m in south-southeast to north-northwest direction in the Wauwermans Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Their surface area is 27 ha.

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a hand fan ('vetrilo' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.

Location

Vetrilo Rocks are centred at 64°56′57″S 64°00′26″W, which is 3.18 km south of Host Island, 5.55 km west-northwest of Zherav Island, 2.11 km north of the midpoint of Yato Rocks, and 4.7 km northeast of Kalmar Island in the Dannebrog Islands group. British mapping in 2001.

Maps

• British Admiralty Nautical Chart 446 Anvers Island to Renaud Island. Scale 1:150000. Admiralty, UK Hydrographic Office, 2001
• Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

See also

• List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands

References

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

External links

• Vetrilo Rocks. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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