Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Tomblin Rock

Tomblin Rock is an isolated rock 0.6 nautical miles east-southeast of , , in the South Sandwich Islands. It is 24 meters high.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Rock
  • Description: rock formation in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Black Rock”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Perseus and Gorgon Pool.

Peak
is the lower and more northerly of twin ice domes in the east part of , South Sandwich Islands. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 in association with nearby .

Pond
is a lake, or perhaps lagoon, between the and in , South Sandwich Islands. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in association with nearby .

is a rock, 30 metres high, which lies 0.1 nautical miles off the southeast side of in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted and named by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II in 1930.

Tomblin Rock

Latitude
-57.07726° or 57° 4′ 38″ south
Longitude
-26.68937° or 26° 41′ 22″ west
Open location code
39JMW8F6+37
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1239199430
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bare_rock
Geo­Names ID
3426254
Wiki­data ID
Q7818685
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Satellite Map

Discover Tomblin Rock from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Tomblin Rock” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Tomblin Rock”
  • Chinese: “通布林岩”
  • German: “Tomblin Rock”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tomblin Rock”
  • Spanish: “Roca Negra”
  • Swedish: “Tomblin Rock”

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Highlights include Chimaera Flats and Mount Andromeda.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tomblin Rock”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.