Rotch Dome
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Rotch Dome is the sloping ice dome rising to 360 m immediately east of Byers Peninsula
Byers Peninsula
Byers Peninsula is a mainly ice-free peninsula forming the west end of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. It occupies , and includes the small freshwater Basalt Lake. The area was visited by early 19th century American and British sealers who came almost exclusively from New England,...

, and between Barclay Bay
Barclay Bay
Barclay Bay is a bay lying between Cape Shirreff and Essex Point on the north side of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name appears on an 1825 chart of the British sealing expedition under James Weddell, and is now established in international usage.-Maps:* L.L. Ivanov et al....

 and Walker Bay
Walker Bay
Walker Bay is a large bay located in the south-western Western Cape province of South Africa. It is the next major bay between False Bay near Cape Town and Cape Agulhas to the south-east. The bay is famous for having some of the best land based whale-watching in the world, which a town on its...

 in Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica. Bounded by Urvich Wall
Urvich Wall
Urvich Wall is the narrow ice-free and crescent-shaped ridge rising to 121 m on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and bounded by Nedelya Point to the north and Rish Point to the southeast...

 to the west, surmounting Etar Snowfield
Etar Snowfield
Etar Snowfield is a roughly crescent-shaped snowfield draining the west slopes of Oryahovo Heights and the north slopes of Rotch Dome into Barclay Bay between Mercury Bluff and Rowe Point, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It extends inland, and in south-southwest to...

 to the northeast and Verila Glacier
Verila Glacier
Verila Glacier on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is bounded by Rotch Dome to the west, Casanovas Peak and Snow Peak to the north, and Ustra Peak to the southeast...

 to the east-northeast, and linked by a saddle to Casanovas Peak
Casanovas Peak
Casanovas Peak is the ice dome rising to 325 m at the base of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands. Surmounting Etar Snowfield to the northwest, Berkovitsa Glacier to the northeast and Verila Glacier to the south....

 to the northeast.

Location

The highest point is located at 62°38′00"S 60°52′59"W which is 10.4 km southwest of Casanovas Peak, 6.75 km north by west of Elephant Point
Elephant Point
Elephant Point is a small predominantly ice-free promontory projecting 2 km into Bransfield Strait at the south extremity of the west half of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point forms the southwest side of the entrance to Kavarna Cove, and is surmounted by...

, 6.1 km east of Tsamblak Hill
Tsamblak Hill
Tsamblak Hill is a rocky hill trending 900 m in north-south direction, 500 m wide and rising to 113 m in eastern Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica....

 and 4.77 km south by east of Rowe Point
Rowe Point
Rowe Point is a sharp, low ice-free point on the southeast coast of Barclay Bay in western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica....

 (British mapping in 1968, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

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