Pagoda rocks
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supposed position of the Pagoda rock |
The Pagoda Rock is a phantom island in the Southern Ocean .
Thomas Edward Laws Moore (1819-1872), a British Marine officer sighted on January 30, 1845 under 60 ° 43 ' S , 3 ° 45' O a covered with snow and ice, allegedly up to 370 meters high rock and named him after his ship, the Bark Pagoda . Later, at the same point, depths of 5308 and 5467 meters were plumbed. A computationally corrected position ( 60 ° 11 ' S , 4 ° 43' O ) was published in 1850, but in 1930 also turned out to be non-existent (5523 meters above sea depth). After searching in vain not only at the specified positions, but within a radius of 70 kilometers, it can be assumed that the alleged pagoda rock was a floating iceberg with moraine deposits.
literature
- Engelmann, Gerhard: Bouvet Island . In: Geographische Zeitschrift, vol. 46, no. 11. Leipzig & Berlin 1940, p. 411
- Kosack, Hans-Peter: The Antarctic: a geography . Heidelberg 1955 (Geographical Handbooks; 6), p. 151