Bellingshausen Island is one of the most southerly of the
South Sandwich Islands
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Thule Island
Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule. It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of Thule, said by ancient ...
and
Cook Island, and forming part of the
Southern Thule
Southern Thule is a collection of the three southernmost islands in the South Sandwich Islands: Bellingshausen, Cook, and Thule (Morrell). The island group is barren, windswept, bitterly cold, and uninhabited. It has an extensive exclusive ...
group. It is named after its discoverer,
Baltic German
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Russia
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Antarctic
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explorer
Fabian von Bellingshausen (1778–1852).
The island is a
basaltic andesite
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stratovolcano
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, and the latest crater, about across and deep, formed explosively some time between 1968 and 1984. Highest point is
Basilisk Peak at . Its southeast point is called Isaacson Point; first charted by
Discovery Investigations
The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, wh ...
personnel on the ''
Discovery II
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Hist ...
'' in 1930 and named for Ms.
S.M. Isaacson, an assistant to the staff of the
Discovery Committee
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See also
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Hardy Point
Hardy Point () is the western point of Bellingshausen Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the '' Discovery II'', who named it for Alister C. Hardy, a member of the zoological staff ...
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List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
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Salamander Point
Salamander Point () is the northern point of Bellingshausen Island, South Sandwich Islands. This feature was named North Point during the survey of the island from RRS '' Discovery II'' in 1930, but the name was changed by United Kingdom Antarctic ...
References
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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
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