Mount Oceanite

Mount Oceanite
	Montagu Island satellite image ; ; the lower right ledge is Mount Oceanite
height	915 m
location	Montagu Island ( South Sandwich Islands )
Coordinates	58 ° 30 ′ 1 ″ S , 26 ° 17 ′ 17 ″ W Coordinates: 58 ° 30 ′ 1 ″ S , 26 ° 17 ′ 17 ″ W

Mount Oceanite is a presumably extinct volcano that forms the extreme southeastern tip of Montagu Island in the South Sandwich Islands archipelago . The striking conical mountain reaches a height of 915 m (according to British data 900 m ), is mostly covered by ice and has a summit crater with a diameter of about 270 meters and a depth of about 100 meters.

The naming made by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 refers to the occurrence of oceanite , a variety of picrit that has so far only been found here on the South Sandwich Islands.

Web links

Antarctica Detail - Mount Oceanite in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey .
Geographical Names - Oceanite, Mount, Antarctica. In: geographic.org. Retrieved June 26, 2020(English).

Individual evidence

^ Martin Wyatt Holdgate, Peter Edward Baker: The South Sandwich Islands: I. General description (= British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports . No. 91 ). Natural Environment Research Council - British Antarctic Survey , Cambridge 1979, ISBN 0-85665-046-3 , IV. South Sandwich Islands - G. Montagu Island , p. 45–50 (English, nora.nerc.ac.uk [PDF; 13.4 MB ]).
↑ Matthew R. Patrick, John L. Smellie et al .: First recorded eruption of Mount Belinda volcano (Montagu Island), South Sandwich Islands . In: Bulletin of Volcanology . tape 67 , no. 5 , June 2005, p. 415–422 , doi : 10.1007 / s00445-004-0382-6 (English, freely available online through CiteSeer ^x [PDF; 341 kB ]).
^ Peter Edward Baker: The South Sandwich Islands: III. Petrology of the volcanic rocks (= British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports . No. 93 ). Natural Environment Research Council - British Antarctic Survey , Cambridge 1978, ISBN 0-85665-045-5 , III. Petrography , S. 8–13 (English, nora.nerc.ac.uk [PDF; 4.9 MB ]).

[1] Martin Wyatt Holdgate, Peter Edward Baker: The South Sandwich Islands: I. General description (= British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports . No. 91 ). Natural Environment Research Council - British Antarctic Survey , Cambridge 1979, ISBN 0-85665-046-3 , IV. South Sandwich Islands - G. Montagu Island , p. 45–50 (English, nora.nerc.ac.uk [PDF; 13.4 MB ]).

[2] Matthew R. Patrick, John L. Smellie et al .: First recorded eruption of Mount Belinda volcano (Montagu Island), South Sandwich Islands . In: Bulletin of Volcanology . tape 67 , no. 5 , June 2005, p. 415–422 , doi : 10.1007 / s00445-004-0382-6 (English, freely available online through CiteSeer ^x [PDF; 341 kB ]).

[3] Peter Edward Baker: The South Sandwich Islands: III. Petrology of the volcanic rocks (= British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports . No. 93 ). Natural Environment Research Council - British Antarctic Survey , Cambridge 1978, ISBN 0-85665-045-5 , III. Petrography , S. 8–13 (English, nora.nerc.ac.uk [PDF; 4.9 MB ]).