Tilt rock
| Tilt rock | ||
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| height | 670 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 26 '45 " S , 68 ° 44' 33" W | |
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The Tilt Rock (English for tilted rock ) is an isolated and 670 m high mountain on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises 3 km inland from George VI Sound and 3 km northeast of Block Mountain .
Aerial photos taken by the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth on his Antarctic flight on November 23, 1935 were used by the American cartographer WLG Joerg for mapping. Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill carried out a survey in 1936. This was refined between 1948 and 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , which descriptively named the mountain.
Web links
- Tilt rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tilt Rock on geographic.org (English)