Baktriana Reef

Antarctic reef

62°45′51.5″S 61°33′38″W / 62.764306°S 61.56056°W / -62.764306; -61.56056ArchipelagoSouth Shetland IslandsArea0.33 ha (0.82 acres)Length360 m (1180 ft)Width40 m (130 ft)AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic TreatyDemographicsPopulationuninhabited

Topographic map of Livingston, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands

Baktriana Reef (Bulgarian: риф Бактриана, romanized: rif Baktriana, IPA: [ˈrif bɐktriˈanɐ]) is the 360 m long in east-west direction and 40 m wide flat and rocky low-tide elevation off the west coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Its surface area is 0.33 ha. The vicinity was visited by early 19th century sealers.^[1]

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling the two humps of a Bactrian camel (‘baktriana’ in Bulgarian).

Location

Baktriana Reef lies in Boyd Strait at 62°45′51.5″S 61°33′38″W / 62.764306°S 61.56056°W / -62.764306; -61.56056,^[2] which is 2.96 km southwest of Byewater Point, 1.8 km northwest of Esteverena Point and 2.7 km north-northeast of Castle Rock. British mapping in 1968.

Maps

South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Sheet W 62 60. Tolworth, UK, 1968
L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4)
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

Notes

^ L. Ivanov. 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. 17–28
^ Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission