Coulman Island
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| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Geographical location | 73 ° 30 ′ S , 169 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| length | 34 km | |
| width | 14.5 km | |
| surface | 342.6 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Hawkes Heights 1999 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Coulman Island ( English Coulman Island ) is an ice-covered volcanic island in the Ross Sea of Antarctica . It is located 14 km off the coast of the Daniell Peninsula on the Borchgrevink Coast of Victoria Land , separated from it by the 15 km wide Glacier Strait . The island consists of several interconnected shield volcanoes . It is inhabited by emperor penguins , adelie penguins and seals .
The southern end of Coulman Island is defined by the Hawkes Heights crater , a 700 m deep, ice-filled caldera 5 km in diameter. In the southwest area of Hawkes Heights is the highest point on the island at 1999 meters. The northern tip of the island is Cape Wadworth , where Captain Robert Falcon Scott, on his expedition with the Discovery on January 15, 1902, set up a mailbox in the form of a metal cylinder attached to an 8 m high red pole. This mailbox is now one of the Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica.
Coulman Island was discovered on January 17, 1841 by the British polar explorer James Clark Ross , who from 1840 to 1843 mapped the Antarctic coast on an expedition with the HMS Erebus and in the company of the HMS Terror under Captain Francis Crozier . Ross named the island after his father-in-law Thomas Coulman. In honor of his wife, he named the cape in the south of the island Cape Anne .
The island lies within the boundaries of the Ross Sub-Area claimed by New Zealand . However, these claims are not recognized internationally due to the Antarctic Treaty .
literature
- Warren Hamilton (1972): The Hallett Volcanic Province, Antarctica (PDF; 22.75 MB). US Geological Survey Professional Paper 456C, 62 pp.
- HJ Harrington (1959): Narrative of a visit to the newly discovered Emperor Penguin rookery at Coulman Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica . Notornis, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 127-132.
- WC McIntosh & PR Kyle (1990): A.4. Coulman Island . In: WE LeMasurier & JW Thomson (eds.), Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans . American Geophysical Union, Antarctica Research Series, Vol. 48, pp. 43-45.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://islands.unep.ch/INY.htm#38
- ↑ List of historical sites and monuments as Appendix 3 of the Antarctic Protected Areas Ordinance (PDF; 141 kB) of April 25, 2005, Federal Law Gazette 2005 Part II No. 10, p. 386 ff.
- ↑ Coleman Island on geographic.org (accessed October 10, 2018).