Talk:Jacquemart Island

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[edit] Southermost point of New Zealand

As the article reads, "Jacquemart Island is commonly listet as the southernmost island of New Zealand. Actually, this is the case for an unnamed islet 50 metres south of Jacquemart Island." Well on the most detailed imagery [1] I see nothing but heavy surf 50 meters south of the island. Should there indeed be a tiny above water rock in that area, it would have to be just a few meters in extent.--Ratzer (talk) 11:35, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

There's a brown smudge, some 50 long, slightly to the west of the island's shadow,[2] which might be a reef. Am I imagining a slightly higher point towards its northern end? I don't think I'd call it an islet, anyway, and it's only 30 m further south than the island's southernmost point, but maybe that's what was meant.

Another possibility is that the claim might be based on nautical chart NZ 3111 (available here), which does seem to show an unnamed islet a short distance south of Jacquemart Island, surrounded by breakers. The accuracy of the chart (which was based on a 1985 survey, and published in 1992) doesn't compare to the imagery we have now. -- Avenue (talk) 14:11, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

I'll take the liberty to remove the reference to this phantom islet south of Jacquemart, since (1) an islet drawn on a map cannot be verified by detailed imagery, and (2) the imagery itself is not conclusive about any other piece of land south of the southern tip of Jacquemart. Actually, it seems that it was me who added that nonsence on Jan. 1, 2007, to the article (perhaps based on map interpretation), so now in the light of new evidence I'm just correcting myself.--Ratzer (talk) 14:32, 19 April 2008 (UTC)