Mount Belinda

Mount Belinda
	Mount Belinda eruption (2005); ; Montagu Island False Color Satellite Image
height	1370 m
location	Montagu Island , ; South Sandwich Islands
Coordinates	58 ° 26 '3 " S , 26 ° 23' 18" W Coordinates: 58 ° 26 '3 " S , 26 ° 23' 18" W
Type	Shield volcano
Last eruption	2001-2007

Mount Belinda is an active shield volcano on Montagu Island in the South Sandwich Islands archipelago . With a height of 1370 m , it is the highest mountain in this group of islands.

The mountain, almost completely covered by ice, dominates the highlands that take up most of Montagu Island. The summit area consists of a six-kilometer-wide caldera in which a young central cone has formed, which is also the current center of the eruption.

Participants in the British Discovery Investigations named the mountain after his daughter Belinda when the South Sandwich Islands were mapped in 1930 in honor of the Discovery Committee's director of research , Stanley W. Kemp.

Volcanic activity

Until the end of the 20th century, Mount Belinda was considered inactive, as no volcanic activity could be detected for the time of the Holocene . In October 2001, satellite images obtained with MODIS gave indications of an eruption of the volcano. The eruption, which lasted until September 2007, was characterized by the constant emission of a cloud of steam and ash and repeated effusive activity . The lava flow that flowed on the north side of the mountain at the height of activities in 2005 reached the sea after 3.5 kilometers and formed an approximately 800 × 500 m large delta, to which the newly created headland Poncet Point belongs.

Web links

Montagu Island in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English).
Antarctica Detail - Mount Belinda in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey .
Geographical Names - Belinda, Mount, Antarctica. In: geographic.org. Retrieved June 26, 2020(English).

Individual evidence

^ South Sandwich Islands - Montagu Island. In: oceandots.com - the island encyclopedia. Archived from the original on December 23, 2010 ; accessed on June 27, 2020 (English).
^ Laurie J. Schmidt: Sensing Remote Volcanoes. In: NASA Earth Observatory. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), July 13, 2004, accessed June 27, 2020 .
^ Matthew R. Patrick, John L. Smellie, Synthesis A spaceborne inventory of volcanic activity in Antarctica and southern oceans, 2000-10 . In: Antarctic Science . tape 25 , no. 4 , August 2013, ISSN 0954-1020 , South Sandwich Islands: Mount Belinda (Montagu Island) , p. 487-490 , doi : 10.1017 / S0954102013000436 (English).

[1] South Sandwich Islands - Montagu Island. In: oceandots.com - the island encyclopedia. Archived from the original on December 23, 2010 ; accessed on June 27, 2020 (English).

[2] Laurie J. Schmidt: Sensing Remote Volcanoes. In: NASA Earth Observatory. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), July 13, 2004, accessed June 27, 2020 .

[3] Matthew R. Patrick, John L. Smellie, Synthesis A spaceborne inventory of volcanic activity in Antarctica and southern oceans, 2000-10 . In: Antarctic Science . tape 25 , no. 4 , August 2013, ISSN 0954-1020 , South Sandwich Islands: Mount Belinda (Montagu Island) , p. 487-490 , doi : 10.1017 / S0954102013000436 (English).