Name details

Goritsa Rocks

Goritsa Rocks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Goritsa Rocks (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Bulgaria Gazetteer Id 137712

Feature type: Rock (5)

Origin

This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

Two contiguous rocks in Zed Islands, South Shetland Islands extending 330 m in NW-SE direction and 70 m wide. Situated 100 m ENE of Dlagnya Rocks and 2.82 km WSW of Pyramid Island. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009. Named after the settlements of Goritsa in Northeastern and Southeastern Bulgaria.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

62° 25' 32.0" S

-62.42556°

Unknown precision

Longitude:

60° 09' 25.0" W

-60.15694°

Unknown precision

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown

Source Name:

Unknown

Source Identifier:

Source Scale:

Unknown

Source Institution:

Unknown

Source Person:

Unknown

Source Publisher:

Unknown

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Unknown

Date approved:

21-Oct-2013

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