Tilt Rock (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Tilt Rock (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Rock
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to c. 550 m on S side of Transition Glacier, George VI Sound, E Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by Ellsworth, 23 November 1935 (Joerg, 1936, Fig. 10, p.458); further photographed from the air and surveyed from the ground by BGLE in October 1936; called descriptively Pyramid Point (Stephenson, 1940, p.75); visited in November 1948 and resurveyed in 1949 by FIDS from "Stonington Island"; named Tilt Rock because the dip of the rock strata gives a tilted appearance to the whole rock mass (APC, 1955, p.21; DOS 610 sheet W 70 68, 1960).
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