Tilbrook Point

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Tilbrook Point ( 59°26′S27°15′W / 59.433°S 27.250°W / -59.433; -27.250 Coordinates: 59°26′S27°15′W / 59.433°S 27.250°W / -59.433; -27.250 ) is a conspicuous cliffs forming the northwest point of Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Peter J. Tilbrook, zoologist of the survey of the South Sandwich Islands from HMS Protector in 1964.

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Cook Island is the central and largest island of Southern Thule, part of the South Sandwich Islands in the far south Atlantic Ocean. Southern Thule was discovered by a British expedition under Captain James Cook in 1775. The island was named for Cook by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen, which explored the South Sandwich Islands in 1819–1820.

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