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Bizone Rock

Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Bizone Rock (Bulgarian: скала Бизоне, ‘Skala Bizone’ \'ska-la bi-'zo-ne\) is the rock off Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 120 m in southeast-northwest direction and 100 m wide. It is the largest and southeasternmost in a group of several rocks extending 1.84 km in southeast-northwest direction and 1 km in a southwest-northeast direction.

The feature is named after the ancient town of Bizone in northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Bizone Rock is located at 62°43′30″S 61°27′34″W / 62.72500°S 61.45944°W / -62.72500; -61.45944, which is 4.4 km west of Irnik Point and 3.85 km northeast of Byewater Point. British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

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References

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