Alert Island
| Alert Island | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Heard and McDonald Islands | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 7 ′ S , 73 ° 51 ′ E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Alert Island is a narrow, sandy island in the Heard and McDonald Islands archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean . It was created in the course of the increasing erosion of the Elephant Spit in the east of Heard .
It is named after the American Bark Alert from New London , Connecticut , who hunted seals in the waters around Heard between 1855 and 1856 .
Web links
- Alert Island in the directory of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)