Orsoya Rocks (, ‘Skali Orsoya’ \ska-'li or-'so-ya\) is the group of rocks off the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, situated west-northwest of Mellona Rocks, north-northeast of Milev Rocks and east-northeast of Opaka Rocks, and extending 650 m in northwest-southeast direction and 500 m in northeast-southwest direction.
The rocks are named after the settlement of Orsoya in Northwestern Bulgaria.
Location Orsoya Rocks are centred at , which is 4.78 km north of Newell Point. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009.
See also List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands South Shetland Islands
Maps South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 62 58. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1968. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English) Orsoya Rocks. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
External links Orsoya Rocks. Copernix satellite image