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The Traversay Islands ( es, Archipiélago Marqués de Traverse) are a group of three islands— Zavodovski, Leskov and Visokoi—at the northern end of the
Zavodovski Island () lies southeast of
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History
The group was discovered in November 1819 by a Russian expedition underBellingshausen Bellingshausen may refer to:
* Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778–1852), Baltic German explorer and officer in the Russian navy, after whom are named:
** Bellingshausen Plate, a tectonic plate
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, who named them for Jean-Baptiste Prevost de Sansac, Marquis de Traversay (1754–1831), a French naval officer who joined the Russian navy in 1791, at the request of an émigré
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French Huguenots
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Frenchman in Russian service, admiral Nassau-Siegen
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. He was Minister of Naval Affairs at Saint Petersburg
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, 1809–28, and chief promoter of Bellingshausen's Antarctic voyage. The name was previously transliterated as Traverse because it was incorrectly thought that the man commemorated was a Russian.
Geography
Zavodovski Island () lies southeast of South Georgia Island
South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
. It is the northernmost of the South Sandwich Islands and the nearest to South Georgia. The island is approximately across with a peak elevation of above sea level. The stratovolcano Mount Asphyxia dominates the western side of the island while the eastern half is a low-lying lava plain.
Mount Asphyxia is believed to be active with fresh lava
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reported in 1830 and numerous indications of activity since. Approximately 50% of the island is composed of tephra
Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.
Volcanologists also refer to airborne fragments as pyroclasts. Once clasts have fallen to the ground, they re ...
. The island is home to around two million breeding chinstrap penguins, making it one of the world's largest penguin colonies. Zavodovski Island featured in the initial part of BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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Visokoi Island (), which lies to the southeast of Zavodovski, is long and wide, capped by Mount Hodson, a volcanic peak (). The peak is named after Sir Arnold Weinholt Hodson
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Falkland Islands
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. Visokoi means "high". The island's eastern tip, Point Irving, is named for the leader of a British exploratory and mapping expedition, Commander John J. Irving; the father of British writer and Holocaust denier
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, David Irving
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Leskov Island () is located to the west of the main arc of the South Sandwich Islands and is less than long, and lies west of Visokoi. It was named by Bellingshausen after the third lieutenant on the expedition ship ''Vostok''. It is composed of andesitic
Andesite () is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition. In a general sense, it is the intermediate type between silica-poor basalt and silica-rich rhyolite. It is fine-grained (aphanitic) to porphyritic in texture, and is composed predomin ...
rather than basalt
Basalt (; ) is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon. More than 90 ...
ic lava
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. The subduction zone forming the South Sandwich Trench
The South Sandwich Trench is a deep arcuate trench in the South Atlantic Ocean lying to the east of the South Sandwich Islands. It is the deepest trench of the Southern Atlantic Ocean, and the second deepest of the Atlantic Ocean after the Puert ...
lies to the east of the island arc.
See also
* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands * List of Antarctic islands north of 60° SReferences
External links
Photograph of Zavodovski Island
This image belongs to John Smellie, Leicester University
Photograph of Visokoi Island
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