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Tilt Rock
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Tilt Rock
Tilt Rock
is an isolated rock
peak
, rising to about 670 m, situated 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) inland from the
George VI Ice Shelf
of
George VI Sound
and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of Block Mountain in eastern
Alexander Island
,
Antarctica
. This rock formation was first photographed from the air on November 23, 1935, by
Lincoln Ellsworth
and later mapped from these photos by
W.L.G. Joerg
. Roughly surveyed from the ground in 1936 by the
British Graham Land Expedition
and resurveyed in 1948-49 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
. So named by FIDS because of its tilted and possibly unstable appearance.
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