Bellingshausen Island
![]() South Sandwich Islands | |
Location of Bellingshausen Island | |
Geography | |
---|---|
Coordinates | 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). Its southeast point is called Isaacson Point; first charted by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II in 1930 and named for Ms. , an assistant to the staff of the Discovery Committee.[1]
See also[]
- Hardy Point
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
- Salamander Point
References[]
- ^ "Isaacson Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
- "Southern Thule". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- 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.
{{cite book}}
:|author2=
has generic name (help)
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
- Islands of the South Sandwich Islands
- Volcanoes of the Atlantic Ocean
- Volcanoes of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Uninhabited islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands geography stubs