Tomblin Rock () is an isolated rock 0.6 nautical miles (1.1 km) east-southeast of
Demon Point,
Candlemas Island
Candlemas Island ( es, Isla Candelaria) is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. It lies about from Vindication Island, separated by the Nelson Channel.
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, in the
South Sandwich Islands
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. It is 24 meters high.
[ (there termed ''Black Rock'')] It is more than 50 meters long north–south, and about 23 meters wide. It has an area of less than 0.1 hectares.
It was charted and named Black Rock by personnel on RRS ''
Discovery II'' in 1930, but that name was changed to avoid duplication. Renamed by
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971 for
John F. Tomblin,
British Antarctic Survey
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(BAS) geologist who made a detailed study of rocks at Candlemas Island in 1964.
References
Rock formations of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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