Okol Rocks
Okol Rocks (, ‘Skali Okol’ ska-'li o-'kol) is a group of rocks in the north of Aitcho Islands group on the west side of English Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The principal feature in the group is Lambert Island
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Passage Rock () is lying  east of Okol Rocks and  west by south of Fort William, Robert Island, with Cheshire Rock () lying  south by east of Passage Rock,  southwest of Fort William,  northeast of Jorge Island and  east-southeast of Okol Rocks. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers operating from nearby Clothier Harbour.

Okol Rocks are named after the settlements of Gorni (Upper) Okol and Dolni (Lower) Okol in western Bulgaria. Lambert Island is named after Rear Admiral Nick Lambert, national hydrographer (2010–2012) and commanding officer of HMS Endurance (2005–2007).  Passage Rock was charted by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1935 and later descriptively named for being a leading mark for ships entering English Strait.  Cheshire Rock is named after Lieutenant Commander Peter Cheshire, leader of the Royal Navy Hydrographic Survey Unit in the area in 1967.

Location
Okol Rocks are centred at , which is  north of Jorge Island,  east of Kilifarevo Island and  west of Fort William Point, Robert Island (British mapping in 1935, 1948, 1961,  1968 and 1974, Argentine in 1953, French in 1954, Chilean in 1961, 1962 and 1971, and Bulgarian in 2009).

See also 
 Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
 List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
 SCAR
 Territorial claims in Antarctica

Maps
 L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map.  Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

Notes

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

External links
 Okol Rocks. Copernix satellite image

Rock formations of Greenwich Island
Bulgaria and the Antarctic