Plum Pudding Island
| Plum Pudding Island | ||
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| Waters | Baker Bay , South Atlantic | |
| Archipelago | Penguin Islands | |
| Geographical location | 27 ° 38 '30 " S , 15 ° 30' 50" E | |
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| length | 150 m | |
| width | 100 m | |
| surface | 1.5 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 20 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
| main place | - | |
Plumpudding Island is an almost diamond-shaped rocky island in the South Atlantic, around 590 meters off the Diamond Coast of Namibia . The island is located in Baker Bay , 2,400 meters north of Sinclair Island .
Plumpudding Island is one of the Penguin Islands and is known as Guano Island because guano was mined here until 1949 . A station on the east side of the island still bears witness to this past. The island is part of the Meob-Chamais marine reserve , with intensive mining going on in the vicinity .
Black Sophie Rock is 740 meters south of the island .
Web links
- Photo of Plumpudding Island from the Namibia Photo Collection by Klaus Dierks
- Research Report of the University of Cape Town to seabirds on plum pudding Iceland ( English )
