Nepean Island
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| Waters | Tasman Sea |
| Geographical location | 29 ° 4 '19 " S , 167 ° 57' 50" O |
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| length | 500 m |
| width | 400 m |
| surface | 10 ha |
| Highest elevation | 31 m |
| Residents | uninhabited |
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Nepean ( English Nepean Island ) is an island in the territory of the Norfolk Island , an Australian outer area in the Pacific Ocean .
The island is part of the Norfolk Ridge , a sub-sea ridge that stretches over 1,000 km south of New Caledonia . The approximately 10 hectare uninhabited island is about one kilometer south of the coast of the Norfolk Island. Several sandstones quarried on Nepean were built in Kingston, the capital of England, during the English colonial period . Today the island is only populated by numerous sea birds .
literature
- Dieter Mueller-Dombois , Francis Raymond Fosberg: Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands (= Ecological Studies . No. 132 ). Springer, New York 1998, ISBN 0-387-98313-9 , Chapter IV. The Subtropical Islands in the New Zealand Region - Norfolk Island: 9. Nepean and Philip Islands, pp. 192 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4419-8686-3 (English, limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- The Off-shore Islands. In: The Essential Guide to Norfolk Island. Peter Clarke (English, information about the islands of Nepean and Phillip).
Individual evidence
- ^ Nepean Island Reserve. In: Norfolk Island Living Library. Norfolk Island Central School, accessed October 13, 2017 .