Bellingshausen (South Sandwich Islands)

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Bellingshausen
NASA ASTER satellite image
NASA ASTER satellite image
Waters South Atlantic
Archipelago South Sandwich Islands
Geographical location 59 ° 24 ′ 48 ″  S , 27 ° 4 ′ 55 ″  W Coordinates: 59 ° 24 ′ 48 ″  S , 27 ° 4 ′ 55 ″  W
Bellingshausen (South Sandwich Islands) (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Bellingshausen (South Sandwich Islands)
surface 2.04 km²
Highest elevation Basilisk Peak
255  m
Residents uninhabited

Bellingshausen is one of the three southernmost islands in the sub- Antarctic archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands . Together with Cook Island and Morrell Island , it forms the group of the Southern Thul Islands .

The small, uninhabited island with an area of ​​only 2.04 km² is a stratovolcano ; the main crater measures about 150 meters in diameter and is 60 meters deep.

Bellingshausen is separated from Cook Island, two kilometers away in the west, by the Maurice Channel . To the northeast, Bristol Island is 47 km away, separated by the Forsters Passage .

The island is named after the Russian Antarctic navigator Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778-1852). It was probably discovered as early as 1775 by the British navigator James Cook , who discovered almost all of the South Sandwich Islands during this time.

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