Wilson Rock (South Sandwich Islands)

The Wilson skirt is a 150 m high cliff in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands . The rock rises 2.2 km west of Bristol Island from the South Atlantic , and is thus in the middle of a chain of rocks that it forms with the eastern neighbor Grindle Rock and the western neighbor Freezland Rock .

The British navigator James Cook discovered it in 1775. Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen mapped it more precisely than Cook during the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821). Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations re- mapped it in 1930. The latter named him after Samuel Herbert Wilson (1873-1950), Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the British Crown Colonies .

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