Nimrod group

supposed position of the Nimrod Group

The Nimrod Group was a group of islands that is said to have been sighted by the Nimrod under Captain Eilbeck on the voyage from Sydney to Cape Horn in 1828 . The approximate location was at 56 ° S, 158 ° W.

Attempts to find the islands again failed: in 1831 John Biscoe looked for seal traps in the South Pacific and found only the open sea at the coordinates of Nimrod.

In 1909, on the return trip from the Nimrod expedition with the Nimrod of the same name, John King Davis was unable to find the Nimrod Group or the Phantom Islands Dougherty and Emerald . Further unsuccessful attempts under JP Ault with the Carnegie (1915) and Lars Christensen with the Norvegia (1930) followed.

Detail of a map from 1906 with a questionable entry

Individual evidence

^ Henry Stommel: Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts . University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver 1984, ISBN 0774802103 , pp. 73-76.
^ JK Davis: Voyage of the SY "Nimrod.": Sydney to Monte Video Viâ Macquarie Island, May 8-July 7, 1909 . In: The Geographical Journal . 36, No. 6, December 1910, pp. 696-703. Retrieved May 6, 2009.

[1] Henry Stommel: Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts . University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver 1984, ISBN 0774802103 , pp. 73-76.

[2] JK Davis: Voyage of the SY "Nimrod.": Sydney to Monte Video Viâ Macquarie Island, May 8-July 7, 1909 . In: The Geographical Journal . 36, No. 6, December 1910, pp. 696-703. Retrieved May 6, 2009.