Tilbrook Point
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| Coordinates | 59 ° 26 ′ S , 27 ° 14 ′ W | |
| location | Cook Island ( South Sandwich Islands ) | |
| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Waters 2 | Douglas Strait | |
The Tilbrook Point is a headland in the form prominent cliffs that the north-western foothills of Cook Iceland in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands is. It represents the eastern boundary of the northern entrance to Douglas Strait .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named it in 1990 after the biologist Peter John Tilbrook (* 1938), who took part in explorations of the South Sandwich Islands on board the HMS Protector in 1964 .
Web links
- Tilbrook Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tilbrook Point on geographic.org (English)