Exmouth Island

Exmouth Island
	The discovery of Exmouth Island.
Waters	Belcher Canal
Archipelago	Queen Elizabeth Islands
Geographical location	77 ° 13 '7 " N , 95 ° 52' 42" W Coordinates: 77 ° 13 '7 " N , 95 ° 52' 42" W
length	3.6 km
width	2.9 km
surface	6.9 km²
Highest elevation	Milne Peak ; 182 m
Residents	uninhabited

Exmouth Iceland is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut .

geography

Exmouth Island forms an archipelago with Table Island and Ekins Island , which lies in the Belcher Channel between Devon Island in the south and Cornwall Island in the north. The island is oval with a small peninsula to the northeast. It is 3.6 km long and up to 2.9 km wide. From the central plateau, which reaches a height of 182 m in Milne Peak , the terrain slopes steeply on all sides.

The island consists of red sandstone , only the uppermost 35 m thick layer consists of fossil limestone from the Middle Triassic .

history

Edward Belcher discovered the island on August 27, 1852 in search of the missing Franklin expedition . He named it in memory of the 1816 bombing of Algiers by a British-Dutch squadron led by Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth , which marked the anniversary of the day. Belcher himself took part in this military action on board the HMS Superb . From Exmouth Island he brought back to England some fossils, including those of an Ichthyosaurus , which were scientifically described by John William Salter and Richard Owen .

Web links

Exmouth Island in the Atlas of Canada

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b R. Owen: Note on some Remains of an Ichthyosaurus Discovered by Captain Sir Edward Belcher, CB, RN, at Exmouth Island, in lat. 77 ° 16 ′ N., long. 96 ° W . In: Edward Belcher: The last of the Arctic voyages; being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher CB, in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852–53–54 . Volume 2, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 389-391 (English).
^ Dale A. Russell : Mesozoic Vertebrates of Arctic Canada . In: CR Harington (Ed.): Canada's missing dimension. Science and history in the Canadian Arctic Islands . Volume 1, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa 1990, ISBN 0-660-13054-8 . Pp. 81-90 (English).
^ Edward Belcher: The last of the Arctic voyages; being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher CB, in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852–53–54 . Volume 1, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 105 f. (English).
^ William Richard O'Byrne: A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray, London 1849, p. 68 (English).
^ JW Salter: Account of the Arctic Carboniferous Fossils . In: Edward Belcher: The last of the Arctic voyages; being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher CB, in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852–53–54 . Volume 2, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 377-389 (English).

[Owen-1] A ^b R. Owen: Note on some Remains of an Ichthyosaurus Discovered by Captain Sir Edward Belcher, CB, RN, at Exmouth Island, in lat. 77 ° 16 ′ N., long. 96 ° W . In: Edward Belcher: The last of the Arctic voyages; being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher CB, in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852–53–54 . Volume 2, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 389-391 (English).

[2] Dale A. Russell : Mesozoic Vertebrates of Arctic Canada . In: CR Harington (Ed.): Canada's missing dimension. Science and history in the Canadian Arctic Islands . Volume 1, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa 1990, ISBN 0-660-13054-8 . Pp. 81-90 (English).

[3] Edward Belcher: The last of the Arctic voyages; being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher CB, in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852–53–54 . Volume 1, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 105 f. (English).

[4] William Richard O'Byrne: A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray, London 1849, p. 68 (English).

[5] JW Salter: Account of the Arctic Carboniferous Fossils . In: Edward Belcher: The last of the Arctic voyages; being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher CB, in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852–53–54 . Volume 2, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 377-389 (English).