Flat Island (McDonald Islands)
| Flat Island | ||
|---|---|---|
| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Heard and McDonald Islands | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 72 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 160 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Flat Iceland (from the English loosely translated Flat Island ) is a 160 m long island in the archipelago Heard and McDonald Islands in the southern Indian Ocean . It is located 160 m north of McDonald Island in the group of the McDonald Islands .
The island appears for the first time in 1874 on a map sketch based on measurements by the British Challenger Expedition (1872–1876). Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions gave it its descriptive name in 1948. Comparisons between satellite images from November 2000 and November 2001 show that Flat Island has now merged with McDonald Island due to pyroclastic deposits and lava flows . In Australia the property is now known as the headland under the name Flat Head .
Web links
- Flat Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flat Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ McDonald Islands. Information from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English, accessed on 11 November 2018).
- ↑ Flat Head in the directory of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English, accessed June 30, 2020)