Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Aleko Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Aleko Rock (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Rock (2b)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Rocky point on the NE coast of South Bay, Livingston Island, 2,000 m N of Spanish Point; emerged during a glacier retreat. Named Aleko Point by the Third Bulgarian Expedition (1994-95) after a peak in the Rila Mountains and a site on Vitosha Mountain which commemorates a writer and proponent of wilderness exploration. Approved as Aleko Rock by UK-APC in 1995.
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