Grindle rock

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Grindle rock
NASA Terra ASTER image of Bristol Island, with Grindle Rock near the western tip
NASA Terra ASTER image of Bristol Island, with Grindle Rock near the western tip
Waters Scotia Lake
Archipelago South Sandwich Islands
Geographical location 59 ° 1 '5 "  S , 26 ° 39' 29"  W Coordinates: 59 ° 1 '5 "  S , 26 ° 39' 29"  W
Grindle Rock (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Grindle rock
length 640 m
width 610 m
surface 30 ha
Highest elevation 213  m
Residents uninhabited

The Grindle Rock is a 215  m high and striking cliff rock in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands . It juts out of the sea 1.7 km west of Bristol Island . Further to the west are Wilson Rock and Freezland Rock .

The British navigator James Cook discovered it in 1775. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations carried out a new mapping in 1930. They named him after Gilbert Edmund Augustine Grindle (1869-1934), Permanent Under-Secretary in the Colonial Office .

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