Bridgeman Island
| Bridgeman Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 3 '49 " S , 56 ° 42' 42" W | |
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| length | 900 m | |
| width | 600 m | |
| Highest elevation | 240 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Bridgeman Island , also called Bridgeman's Island , Bridgman Island or Helena Island , is a volcanic island in the South Shetland Islands .
The island is comparatively isolated around 37 km east of King George Island . It has dimensions of 600 × 900 meters and reaches a height of 240 meters above sea level. The name established itself in 1820. When Edward Bransfield discovered the island on January 22nd, he named it after a captain and later Vice Admiral of the British Navy , Charles Orlando Bridgeman (1791-1860).
Bridgeman Iceland is the inactive remnant of a once much larger, heavily eroded and largely submerged in the sea stratovolcano has that no signs of activity in recent years. Reports from the 19th century on volcanic activity ( fumaroles ) may be confused with the much younger Penguin Island .
Web links
- Bridgeman Island in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English).
- 70South: South Shetland Islands. ( Memento from May 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Kraus et al .: Geochemical signatures of tephras from Quaternary Antarctic Peninsula volcanoes . In: Andean Geology . tape 40 , no. January 1 , 2013, ISSN 0716-0208 , 4.6. Bridgeman Island, S. 10 , doi : 10.5027 / andgeoV40n1-a01 (English).
- ↑ John Stewart: Bridgeman Island . In: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 210 (English)