Arms of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Freezland Rock

(Turmoil Point)

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Location: 59° 2' 2" S 26° 43' 5" W
W of three rocks off W coast of Bristol Island, rising to c. 300 m, was discovered and charted by Cook on 31 January 1775; named Freezland Peak after a Dutch Able Seaman aboard HMS Resolution, who first sighted it; together with Wilson Rock and Grindle Rock, called Freezlands Rocks. Freezeland Rock, following re-survey by Discovery Investigations in 1930. The first landing was made on the rock by helicopter from HMS Protector in 1964.