Isle de Jeanette Marie
| Isle de Jeanette Marie | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 28 ′ S , 169 ° 8 ′ E | |
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| length | 470 m | |
| width | 335 m | |
| surface | 11 ha | |
| Highest elevation | > 100 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Isle de Jeanette Marie is one of the Campbell Islands , a group of small sub-arctic islands off the New Zealand island of Campbell Island in the southern Pacific Ocean .
geography
The 470 m long and up to 335 m wide island is located 800 m northwest of Courrejolles Point with its 1.8 km protruding headland off the northwest coast of Campbell Island . With its steeply sloping cliffs, it rises to just over 100 m from the sea.
geology
Isle De Jeanette Marie is made of basalt rock. The island was formed by erosion and was originally part of the former volcano that formed Campbell Island in the late Cenozoic .
Flora and fauna
In November 1997, a team of scientists landed by helicopter on Isle de Jeanette Marie to look for populations of Campbell's ducks previously found on Dent Island and believed to be extinct. You did not find anything. However, populations of Mollymawk , a medium-sized albatross , could be detected . They settle in the cliffs of a sheltered bay facing southeast.
World natural heritage
As part of Campbell Iceland , the island now belongs to in 1998 recognized UNESCO - World Heritage in which the sub-Arctic archipelagos The Snares , Bounty Islands , Antipodes Islands , Auckland Islands and the island of Campbell Iceland got the protection status pronounced.
literature
- Patrick Marshall : New Zealand and adjacent islands . VII Section 1. Carl Winter's University Bookstore , Heidelberg 1912, B. Outlying Islands of New Zealand (English, online [PDF; 6,7 MB ; accessed on June 9, 2018]).
- David Baker, Jeremy WA Carrol, Hannah K. Edmonds, James R. Fraser, Colin M. Miskelly : Discovery of a previously unknown Coenocorypha snipe in the Campbell Island group, New Zealand subantarctic . In: The Ornithological Society of New Zealand (ed.): Notornis . Vol. 52 , 2005, pp. 143–149 (English, online [PDF; 4.0 MB ; accessed on June 8, 2018]).
- Peter J. Moore : Counting mollymawks on Campbell Island (= Technical Series . Volume 16 ). Department of Conservation , Wellington 1999, ISBN 0-478-21833-8 (English, online [PDF; 558 kB ; accessed on June 8, 2018]).
Web links
- Campbell Island . (JPG 4.0 MB)Land Information New Zealand,accessed on June 9, 2018(English, detailed topographic map ofCampbell Islandwith its small neighboring island and rocky islands).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coordinates and longitudes were determined using Goggle Earth Pro Version 7.3.1.4507 on June 9th, 2018
- ^ Campbell Island . (JPG 4.0 MB) Land Information New Zealand , accessed on June 9, 2018 (English, detailed topographic map of Campbell Island with its small neighboring island and rocky islands).
- ^ Marshall : New Zealand and adjacent islands . 1912, p. 62-64 .
- ↑ Baker uw : Discovery of a Previously unknown Coenocorypha snipe in the Campbell group Iceland, New Zealand subantarctic . 2005, p. 145 .
- ↑ Moore : Counting mollymawks on Campbell Iceland . 1999, p. 9 .
- ^ New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands - Description . UNESCO , 1998, accessed June 9, 2018 .