title: Eddystone Rocks (South Shetland Islands)
text: # Eddystone Rocks (South Shetland Islands)
  
  Eddystone Rocks is a group of two rocks (the north one being the larger) lying to the northwest of Rugged Island off western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
  
  The feature was charted and named in 1821 by Robert Fildes after the Eddystone Rocks off Plymouth, England.
  
  ## Location
  
  The rocks are centred at 62°35′54.9″S 61°23′11.6″W﻿ / ﻿62.598583°S 61.386556°W﻿ / -62.598583; -61.386556 which is 3.54 km (2.2 mi) west-southwest of The Pointers, 4.73 km (2.94 mi) west-northwest of Cape Sheffield, Rugged Island, and 4.5 km (2.8 mi) northwest of Bekas Rock (British mapping in 1821, 1822, 1933 and 1968, French in 1937, Argentine in 1946, 1957 and 1980, Chilean in 1971, and Bulgarian in 2009 and 2017).
  
  