Tomblin Rock

Tomblin Rock lies off Demon Point, a northern headland of Candlemas Island amongst the South Sandwich Islands. It rises to 80 feet above sea-level a thousand yards off Candlemas Island's north-east coast.

The rock was was charted by Discovery Investigations in 1930 and named descriptively 'Black Rock'. Following surveys from HMS Protector in 1962 and 1964, the feature was re-named 'Tomblin Rock' after John Frederick Tomblin, of the Department of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Oxford, who took part in the 1964 survey.

Location

• Location map: 57°4’38"S, 26°41’23"W

Reference

• Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Tomblin Rock