Escuba
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Archipelago | Pacific Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 4 ° 0 ′ N , 81 ° 37 ′ W | |
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| length | 85 m | |
| width | 30 m | |
| surface | 0.2 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Escuba is a small rocky island of volcanic origin in the eastern Pacific Ocean , a subsidiary island of Malpelo that belongs to Colombia .
Escuba is about 85 meters long and 30 meters wide and oriented in a south-southwest-north-northeast direction. Its area is approximately 0.2 hectares, which is less than four hundredth the area of Malpelo. The main island is about 470 m north of Escuba, its northern end just under two kilometers northeast. Directly south of it are the islands of Solomon , Saul, and David , of which David and Saul are smaller than Escuba, while Salomon is a little more than half larger. David, the southernmost, is about 310 m north of Escuba. La Gringa is 230 m east of Escuba and is about three times as large. Escuba extends about 33 m further south. Almost 100 meters south of La Gringa and further south than Escuba is the La Ferretería reef . But it has no land mass.
The southernmost point of Escubas at 3 ° 59 ′ 35 ″ N , 81 ° 36 ′ 50 ″ W is the southernmost country that can still be counted as part of North America. Because of its political affiliation to Colombia, Malpelo is usually counted as part of South America, but in fact it is exactly 20 km closer to Panama than to Colombia ; the closest land is Isla Jicarita . The North American mainland is twelve kilometers closer than the South American one. Since Malpelo is not on the South American plate , but on the coconut plate , the assignment to South America is geographically contestable. If you want to count Malpelo to South America or not to any continent, the southernmost point of North America would either be the South Point of Coconut Island or the southern tip of the aforementioned Isla Jicarita in Panama.
As part of the Malpelo nature reserve, Escuba is a World Heritage Site .
Web link
- Malpelo Island - Colombia , diving dream: Description of Malpelos with aerial photo; Escuba marked as "Scuba"
Individual proof
- ↑ All route information comes from OpenStreetMap .