Tilley Nunatak () is a bold, rocky outcrop 5 nautical miles (9 km) south of
Hobbs Islands
The Hobbs Islands are a group of islands northeast of William Scoresby Bay, Antarctica. The largest island of this group was discovered on 18 February 1931 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Mawson who tho ...
, projecting from the coastal ice cliffs eastward of
William Scoresby Bay. Discovered in February 1936 by
DI personnel on the ''
William Scoresby
William Scoresby (5 October 178921 March 1857) was an English whaler, Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman.
Early years
Scoresby was born in the village of Cropton near Pickering south-west of Whitby in Yorkshire. His father, Willia ...
'' and named by them for Professor
C.E. Tilley, who studied the rock specimens brought back by the expedition.
See also
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Tilley Bay Tilley Bay () is a bay just east of Tilley Nunatak on the coast of Mac. Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and named Nabbvika (peg bay). Renamed by Antarctic Names ...
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Uksen Island
Nunataks of Mac. Robertson Land
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