- Source: Bellingshausen Island
Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly islands 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).
The island is a basaltic andesite stratovolcano, and the latest crater, which is about 152 metres (500 ft) across and 61 metres (200 ft) deep was formed from an explosion some time between 1968 and 1984. Its highest point, at 255 metres (837 ft), is Basilisk Peak. Isaacson Point is its southeast point—an area first charted by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II in 1930. It was named after Ms. S. M. Isaacson, an assistant to the staff of the Discovery Committee.
See also
Hardy Point
List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
Salamander Point
References
"Southern Thule". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
LeMasurier, W.E.; Thomson, J.W., eds. (1990). Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. American Geophysical Union. p. 512. 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
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Pulau Aleksander
- Meridian barat ke-27
- Pulau Peter I
- Antarktika
- Tanjung Flying Fish
- Sejarah Antarktika
- Samudra Selatan
- Pulau Macquarie
- Pulau Zavodovski
- Georgia Selatan dan Kepulauan Sandwich Selatan
- Bellingshausen Island
- Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
- Bellingshausen Sea
- Thule Island
- Bellingshausen
- Southern Thule
- Bellingshausen Station
- Zavodovski Island
- Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands
- Thurston Island
