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'''Okol Rocks''' ({{lang-bg|''скали Бучино''}}, ‘Skali Buchino’ \ska-'li 'bu-chi-no\) is a group of rocks in the [[Aitcho Islands]] group on the west side of [[English Strait]] in the the [[South Shetland Islands]], [[Antarctica]] situated 600 m north of [[Jorge Island]], 800 m east of [[Kilifarevo Island]], 900 m south of [[Chaos Reef]] and 800 m west of [[Passage Rock]].
'''Okol Rocks''' ({{lang-bg|''скали Бучино''}}, ‘Skali Buchino’ \ska-'li 'bu-chi-no\) is a group of rocks in the [[Aitcho Islands]] group on the west side of [[English Strait]] in the [[South Shetland Islands]], [[Antarctica]] situated 600 m north of [[Jorge Island]], 800 m east of [[Kilifarevo Island]], 900 m south of [[Chaos Reef]] and 800 m west of [[Passage Rock]].


The rocks are named after the settlements of [[Gorni Okol|Gorni (Upper) Okol]] and [[Dolni Okol|Dolni (Lower) Okol]] in western [[Bulgaria]].
The rocks are named after the settlements of [[Gorni Okol|Gorni (Upper) Okol]] and [[Dolni Okol|Dolni (Lower) Okol]] in western [[Bulgaria]].

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Location of Aitcho Islands in the South Shetland Islands.

Okol Rocks (Template:Lang-bg, ‘Skali Buchino’ \ska-'li 'bu-chi-no\) is a group of rocks in the Aitcho Islands group on the west side of English Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated 600 m north of Jorge Island, 800 m east of Kilifarevo Island, 900 m south of Chaos Reef and 800 m west of Passage Rock.

The rocks are named after the settlements of Gorni (Upper) Okol and Dolni (Lower) Okol in western Bulgaria.

Location

Okol Rocks are located at 62°22′19″S 59°45′42″W / 62.37194°S 59.76167°W / -62.37194; -59.76167. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Map

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

References

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