Monowai Island

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Monowai Island
Map of Campbell Island with Monowai Island in the southwest
Map of Campbell Island with Monowai Island in the southwest
Waters Pacific Ocean
Geographical location 52 ° 34 '  S , 169 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 34 '  S , 169 ° 3'  E
Monowai Island (New Zealand Outlying Islands)
Monowai Island
length 370 mdep1
width 280 mdep1
surface 8 hadep1
Highest elevation 144  m
Residents uninhabited

Monowai Iceland is one of the Campbell Islands , a group of small islands off the subarctic to New Zealand belonging island Campbell Iceland in the southern Pacific Ocean .

geography

The 370 m long and up to 280 m wide island is located in the western part of Rocky Bay 500 m off the coast in the southwest of Campbell Island . It rises up to 144  m from the sea with its steep cliffs . Around 800 m in a south-westerly direction there is a rock protruding from the sea, which is called Seagull Rock and between the coast of Campbell Island and Monowai Island there is an unnamed 220 m long rock island at a distance of 330 m from Monowai Island .

1.26 km southeast of Survey Island rises just over 40  m from the sea and 1.9 km southwest with Wasp Island, another small neighboring rocky island .

geology

Monowai Island consists 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 .

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]).

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

  1. ↑ a b Coordinates and longitudes were determined using Goggle Earth Pro Version 7.3.1.4507 on June 9, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c 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).
  3. ^ Marshall : New Zealand and adjacent islands . 1912, p.  62-64 .
  4. ^ New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands - Description . UNESCO , 1998, accessed June 9, 2018 .