Bellingshausen Island

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Coordinates: 59°25′S, 027°03′W

For Bellingshausen in the Society Islands, see Motu One (Society Islands).

Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly of the South Sandwich Islands, close to Thule Island and Cook Island, and forming part of the Southern Thule group. It is named after its discoverer, Russian Antarctic explorer Fabian von Bellingshausen (1778-1852).^{[clarification needed]}

The island is a basaltic-andesite stratovolcano, and the latest crater, about 500 feet (150 metres) across and 200 feet (60 metres) deep, formed explosively some time between 1968 and 1984.

[edit] References

• "Thule Islands" at Global Volcanism Program
• LeMasurier, W. E.; Thomson, J. W. (eds.) (1990). Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. American Geophysical Union, 512 pp. ISBN 0-87590-172-7. 

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