Antipodes Island
| Antipodes Island | ||
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| Waters | South pacific | |
| Archipelago | Antipodal Islands | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 41 ′ 16 ″ S , 178 ° 46 ′ 27 ″ E | |
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| length | 6.8 km | |
| width | 5.7 km | |
| surface | 20 km² | |
| Highest elevation |
Mount Galloway 366 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
 This is where the shipwrecked of the Spirit of the Dawn went ashore in 1893 and the Totorore also crashed here . |
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Antipodes Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the southern Pacific Ocean . It is the largest and main island of to New Zealand belonging Antipodes Islands (Engl. Antipodes Islands Group ).
geography
Antipodes Island is located approximately 770 km southeast of New Zealand's South Island . The island is 6.8 km long, up to 5.7 km wide and has an area of about 20 km². The island consists of several volcanoes of the cinder cone type and tuff cone and reaches a height of 366 m above sea level in Mount Galloway . Another notable elevation is Mount Waterhouse at 358 m. Its coast is steep cliffs of basalt marked; numerous cliffs are in front of the coast. North of Antipodes Island is the much smaller Bollons Island .
history
The archipelago and thus also the main island was discovered in 1800 by Henry Waterhouse, captain of the HMS Reliance . As a result, numerous ships crashed on and off the island: On September 4, 1893, The Spirit of Dawn , whose eleven survivors had to stay on the island for three months. Unfortunately, they did not know that a hut with provisions had been set up in the northeast of the island. That hut supplied the shipwrecked President Felix Faure in 1908. The last accident so far occurred on June 12, 1999, when the yacht Totorore sank and its sailors were killed.
See also
Web links
- Antipodes Island in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)
- Over the three shipwrecks (English)
- Topographic map of the island
