Baktriana Reef

Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°45′51.5″S 61°33′38″W / 62.764306°S 61.56056°W / -62.764306; -61.56056
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Area	0.33 ha (0.82 acres)
Length	360 m (1180 ft)
Width	40 m (130 ft)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

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.