Nobby (cliff)
| Nobby | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Archipelago | Clerke Rocks ( South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 2 ′ S , 34 ° 38 ′ W | |
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Nobby is a cliff rock in the South Atlantic . It rises out of the sea about 60 km from the southeast end of South Georgia at the southeast end of Clerke Rocks .
The British navigator James Cook discovered the Clerke Rocks in 1775. The descriptive name, which is derived from the English [k] nobby for "knubbelig" or "knotty", probably goes back to scientists of the British Discovery Investigations , which between 1926 and 1930 had explored the area around South Georgia.
Web links
- Nobby in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nobby on geographic.org (English)