Frolosh Point ( bg, нос Фролош, ‘Nos Frolosh’ \'nos 'fro-losh\) is the point forming the north side of the entrance to Galata Cove on the northeast coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. The point is named after the settlement of

Frolosh Frolosh ( bg, Фролош) is a village in Kocherinovo Municipality, Kyustendil Province, south-western Bulgaria. As of 2013 it has 120 inhabitants. It is situated in the picturesque northern section of the Vlahina mountain range with views to Bu ...

in western Bulgaria.

Location

Frolosh Point is located at , which is 1.93 km north of Deliradev Point, 4.1 km south-southeast of Cape Bayle and 7 km west of

Lambda Island Lambda Island is an island lying immediately north-west of Delta Island in the Melchior Islands, of the Palmer Archipelago in Antarctica. The island, the largest in the north-western part of the island group, was first roughly charted and named ...

in the

Melchior Islands The Melchior Islands are a group of many low, ice-covered islands lying near the center of Dallmann Bay in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. They were first seen but left unnamed by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873–74. The isl ...

. British mapping in 1980.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1980.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Frolosh Point.
SCAR

Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...

.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Frolosh Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{AnversIsland-geo-stub