Arms of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Tomblin Rock

(Demon Point)

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Location: 57° 4' 38" S 26° 41' 23" W
rising 24 m above sea-level c.1km off NE coast of Candlemas Island, was charted by Discovery Investigations in 1930 and named descriptively Black Rock. Following surveys from HMS Protector in 1962 and 1964, the feature was re-named Tomblin Rock after John Frederick Tomblin, of the Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Oxford University, who took part in the 1964 survey.