Goritsa Rocks
| Goritsa Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 26 ′ S , 60 ° 9 ′ W | |
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The Goritsa Rocks (English; Bulgarian скали Горица Goriza ) are two cliff rocks in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They belong to the group of Zed Islands off the Varna Peninsula of Livingston Island and are located in a northwest-southeastern extension of 330 m length and 70 m width 100 m northeast of the Dlagnya Rocks and 2.82 km west-southwest of Pyramid Island .
British scientists mapped them in 1968, Bulgarians in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2013 after localities in northeast and southeast Bulgaria .
Web links
- Goritsa Rocks in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)