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{{Short description|Rock formation in Antarctica}}
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'''Vergilov Rocks''' (Vergilov Kamak ver-'gi-lov 'ka-m&k) are a group of rocks off [[Bulgarian Beach]] on [[Hurd Peninsula]] in eastern [[Livingston Island]] in the [[South Shetland Islands]], [[Antarctica]], consisting of one main rock and two adjacent smaller ones submerging at high water.

The rocks are named after Zlatil Vergilov, a member of the 1988 Bulgarian party on Livingston Island, base commander at [[St. Kliment Ohridski Base|St. Kliment Ohridski]] in the 1996–99 seasons.

==Location==
{{stack|[[File:Central-Eastern-Livingston-Map.png|thumb|280px|Topographic map of central-eastern Livingston Island featuring Vergilov Rocks]]}}
The rocks are located at {{coord|62|38|24|S|60|22|12|W|}} which is {{convert|510|m|yd|abbr=on}} northeast of [[Hespérides Point]], {{convert|310|m|yd|abbr=on}} west by south of Greenpeace Rock, and {{convert|100|m|yd|abbr=on}} from the coast in front of the Bulgarian base (British mapping in 1968, Bulgarian mapping from a 1995-1996 topographic survey).

[[File:Livingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png|thumb|none|Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island.]]

==Maps==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140201171902/http://uacg.bg/filebank/att_1511.pdf Isla Livingston: Península Hurd.] Mapa topográfico de escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991. (Map reproduced on p.&nbsp;16 of the linked work)
* L.L. Ivanov. [[:commons:Image:Ohridski-Map.jpg|St. Kliment Ohridski Base, Livingston Island]]. Scale 1:1000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 1996. (The first Bulgarian Antarctic topographic map, in Bulgarian)
* L.L. Ivanov. [[:commons:File:Central-Eastern-Livingston-Map.png|Livingston Island: Central-Eastern Region]]. Scale 1:25000 topographic map.  Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 1996.
* L.L. Ivanov et al. [[:commons:Image:Livingston-Greenwich-map.jpg|Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands]]. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
* L.L. Ivanov. [http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg 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}}
* Antarctica, South Shetland Islands, Livingston Island: Bulgarian Antarctic Base. Sheets 1 and 2. Scale 1:2000 topographic map. Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Agency, 2016. (in Bulgarian)
* [http://www.add.scar.org Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).] Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
* L.L. Ivanov. [[:commons:File:Livingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png|Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island]]. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. {{ISBN|978-619-90008-3-0}}

==See also==
* [[Composite Antarctic Gazetteer]]
* [[List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands#List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S|List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S]]
* [[Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research|SCAR]]
* [[Territorial claims in Antarctica]]
* [[Vergilov Ridge]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=105047 Vergilov Rocks.] SCAR [[Composite Antarctic Gazetteer]]
* [http://apcbg.org/gazet-bg.pdf Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.] [[Antarctic Place-names Commission]]. (details in Bulgarian, [http://apcbg.org/gazet.pdf basic data] in English)
* Ivanov, L. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150708084208/http://livingston-island.weebly.com/ General Geography and History of Livingston Island.] In: ''Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis''. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp.&nbsp;17–28. {{ISBN|978-954-07-3939-7}}

==External links==
* [https://copernix.io/#?where=-60.370000000000005,-62.64,18&?query=&?map_type=hybrid Vergilov Rocks.] Copernix satellite image

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[[Category:Rock formations of Livingston Island]]


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