Makresh Rocks (, ‘Skali Makresh’ ska-'li 'ma-kresh) are a group of rocks situated northeast of Treklyano Island off the northeast coast of Robert Island, South Shetland Islands. Extending in west-southwest to east-northeast direction, and in northwest-southeast direction. The solitary Salient Rock is lying east of the midpoint of Makresh Rocks and northeast of Smirnenski Point.
The feature is named after the settlement of Makresh in northwestern Bulgaria. Salient Rock was descriptively named Roca Saliente by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition and charted in 1951.
Location Makresh Rocks are centred at (Bulgarian mapping in 2009).
See also Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S SCAR Territorial claims in Antarctica
Map L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
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References Makresh Rocks. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links Makresh Rocks. Copernix satellite image