Hasselwood Rock

Rockall nautical chart from 1884, showing Hasselwood Rock and Helen's Reef

Hasselwood Rock protrudes only slightly from the water, recognizable by the white spray, in the foreground the Rockall rocks

Hasselwood Rock is a submarine cliff or rock reef around 200 meters north of the rocky island Rockall in the northeast Atlantic . It only protrudes a meter out of the sea when the tide is low, otherwise it is flooded. Two kilometers to the east is Helen's Reef on the same submarine bank .

history

The rock bears the name of the sea captain who discovered it in 1812.

On June 28, 1904, the Danish liner Norge hit the rocks and sank within 20 minutes. Of the total of 795 people on board, 625 were killed, only 170 survived. It is the worst shipping accident in the North Atlantic to date.

The United Kingdom has claimed sovereignty over the rocks since 1955. In 1972 the rock was slammed into what was then the Harris district in the Scottish county of Inverness-shire . Today it belongs to the Outer Hebrides Council Area , without being part of the archipelago itself. In addition, Iceland and the Danish Faroe Islands are making territorial claims.

Web links

Hasselwood Rock; INVERNESS-SHIRE; Scotland. Photo of the flooded Hasselwood Rock, oblique aerial view looking towards the southeast, March 22, 1991.

Individual evidence

↑ CQ . In: Cowan Publishing Corp. (Ed.): CQ: The Radio Amateur's Journal . Vol. 23, No. January 1, 1967, ISSN 0007-893X , OCLC 310821852 , pp. 23 (uncertain) (English, CQ Magazine Archives [accessed June 20, 2019]).
^ ^A ^b Severin Carrell: Rockall - a timeline. In: The Guardian . Guardian News & Media Limited, May 28, 2013, accessed April 19, 2015 .

57.599444444444 -13.688611111111Coordinates: 57 ° 36 ′ N , 13 ° 41 ′ W

[1] CQ . In: Cowan Publishing Corp. (Ed.): CQ: The Radio Amateur's Journal . Vol. 23, No. January 1, 1967, ISSN 0007-893X , OCLC 310821852 , pp. 23 (uncertain) (English, CQ Magazine Archives [accessed June 20, 2019]).

[guardian20130528-2] A ^b Severin Carrell: Rockall - a timeline. In: The Guardian . Guardian News & Media Limited, May 28, 2013, accessed April 19, 2015 .