Red Island (Antarctica)
| Red Island | ||
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| Waters | Prince Gustav Canal | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 44 ′ S , 57 ° 52 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation |
The Monument 495 m |
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Red Island (English, Swedish Rödön , each correspondingly translated "Red Island") is a circular and flattened island in the Prince Gustav Canal off the south side of the Trinity Peninsula at the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 5.5 km northwest of Cape Lachman on James Ross Island . Its diameter is 1.5 km with the 495 m high rock column The Monument as the highest point. A special feature of the island are its reddish cliffs made of volcanic rock.
The first sighting and the descriptive naming goes back to participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them in 1945 and named them descriptive. The name was transferred to its English version as early as 1905.
Web links
- Red Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Red Island on geographic.org (English)