Bellingshausen Island
South Sandwich Islands | |
Location of Bellingshausen Island | |
Geography | |
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Coordinates | 59°25′S 27°3′W / 59.417°S 27.050°WCoordinates: 59°25′S 27°3′W / 59.417°S 27.050°W |
Administration | |
United Kingdom |
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, Baltic German-Russian Antarctic explorer Fabian von Bellingshausen (1778–1852).
The island is a basaltic andesite stratovolcano, and the latest crater, about 152 metres (500 ft) across and 61 metres (200 ft) deep, formed explosively some time between 1968 and 1984. Highest point is Basilisk Peak at 255 metres (837 ft).
See also
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. p. 512 pp. ISBN 0-87590-172-7.
External links
Photos of the island can be found at:
- http://www.photo.antarctica.ac.uk/external/guest/detail/personal/10005836/1/8
- http://cedric-in-antarctica-2009.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html
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