Frolosh Point
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Frolosh Point is the point forming the north side of the entrance to Galata Cove
Galata Cove
Galata Cove is the 1.7 km wide cove indenting for 2 km the northeast coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Entered south of Frolosh Point.The cove is named after the Galata Point on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.-Maps:...

 on the northeast coast of Anvers Island
Anvers Island
Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island long, which is the largest feature in the Palmer Archipelago, lying southwest of Brabant Island at the southwestern end of the group. Anvers Island is located at...

 in the Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula....

, Antarctica. Situated 16.15 km north-northwest of Dralfa Point
Dralfa Point
Dralfa Point is the point forming the north extremity of Thompson Peninsula on the northeast coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica...

, 4.8 km south-southeast of Cape Bayle
Cape Bayle
Cape Bayle is a cape forming the northeast end of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Charcot and named after Vice Admiral Charles-Jesse Bayle , French Navy....

 and 7 km west of Lambda Island
Lambda Island
Lambda Island is an island long, which lies immediately northwest of Delta Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. This island, the largest feature in the northwest part of the island group, was first roughly charted and named Île Sourrieu by the French Antarctic Expedition under...

 in the Melchior Islands
Melchior Islands
Melchior Islands is a group of many low, ice-covered islands lying near the center of Dallmann Bay in the Palmer Archipelago. First seen but left unnamed by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873-74. Resighted and roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste...

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The point is named after the settlement of Frolosh in western Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Location

Frolosh Point is located at 64°18′45"S 63°09′10"W. British mapping in 1980.

Maps

  • British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3217. DOS 610 - W 64 62. Tolworth, UK, 1980.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.
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