Galiche Rock (, ‘Skala Galiche’ \ska-'la 'ga-li-che\) is the large rock off Somovit Point on the east coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is extending in northwest-southeast direction and in northeast-southwest direction, and forming the south side of the entrance to Kruni Cove and the north side of the entrance to Tsepina Cove.Galiche Rock. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The rock is named after the settlement of Galiche in Northwestern Bulgaria.
Location Galiche Rock is located northeast of Somovit Point, south of Kitchen Point and north of Batuliya Point. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009.
See also Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S SCAR Territorial claims in Antarctica
Maps L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
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References Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English) Galiche Rock. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
External links Galiche Rock. Copernix satellite image