Stoltenhoff Island
| Stoltenhoff Island | ||
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 Nightingale Iceland of view |
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| Waters | Atlantic Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Tristan da Cunha | |
| Geographical location | 37 ° 24 ′ 8 ″ S , 12 ° 29 ′ 23 ″ W | |
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| length | 580 m | |
| width | 280 m | |
| surface | 20 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 99 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Stoltenhoff Island is an uninhabited island in the South Atlantic . Like the entire Tristan da Cunha archipelago, Stoltenhoff belongs to the British overseas territory of St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha .
It is 20 hectares , the second smallest of the so-called Nightingale Island , to which must be approximately 1600 meters south to Nightingale Iceland and just 800 meters from Middle Iceland are counted.
The island is named after the brothers Gustav and Friedrich Stoltenhoff, who tried to settle on the northwestern island of Inaccessible from November 1871 , but gave up again in October 1873.
literature
- Eric Rosenthal: Shelter from the Spray: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Brothers Frederick and Gustav Stoltenhoff, lately of Cape Town, their Various Adventures of a Desert Island and Elsewhere, their Love Affairs and Subsequent Fate . Howard Timmins, Cape Town 1952 (English).